Ross J. Anderson

Ross John Anderson (1956 to 2024) was a British researcher, author and industry consultant in security engineering, and Professor of Security Engineering at the Department of Computer Science and Technology of the University of Cambridge. Educated at the High School of Glasgow and at Trinity College, Cambridge, he worked in the avionics and banking industries before returning to Cambridge in 1992 and received his PhD in 1995 under Roger Needham. In cryptography he designed the BEAR, LION and Tiger primitives with Eli Biham, co-wrote with Biham and Lars Knudsen the block cipher Serpent, a finalist in the Advanced Encryption Standard competition, and designed the stream cipher Pike. He wrote several editions of Security Engineering, founded the Foundation for Information Policy Research in 1998 and campaigned for computer security to be studied in its human, social and economic context.