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'''Niels Provos''' is a researcher in the areas of secure systems, [[malware]] and [[cryptography]]. He is a Distinguished Engineer at [[Google]]. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the [[University of Michigan]].

He is the author of numerous software packages, including the [[libevent]] event driven programming system, the [[Systrace]] access control system, the [[honeyd]] honeypot system, the StegDetect [[steganography]] detector, the SpyBye malware detector, and many others. He is also the creator of the [[bcrypt]] adaptive cryptographic hash function, and was for many years a contributor to the [[OpenBSD]] project.

Provos has been an outspoken critic of the effect of the [[DMCA]] and similar laws on security researchers, arguing that they threaten to make criminals of people conducting legitimate security research.

Provos has also served as the Program Chair of the Usenix Security Symposium, on the program committees of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] [[SIGCOMM]], and numerous other conferences, and served on the board of directors of [[Usenix]] from 2006 to 2010.

Provos's hobbies include swordsmithing, and he has forged swords in both Japanese and Viking styles. He routinely posts videos of his blacksmithing activities online.

==Education==
* Ph.D., Computer Science & Engineering, August 2003, University of Michigan (Dissertation: "Statistical Steganalysis")
* Diplom in Mathematics, August 1998, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. (Masters in Mathematics). (Thesis: "Cryptography, especially the RSA algorithm on elliptic curves and Z/nZ")
* Vordiplom in Mathematics, March 1995, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
* Vordiplom in Physics, March 1995, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

==Selected publications==
*[http://www.usenix.org/events/sec08/tech/provos.html All Your iFrames Point to Us] Niels Provos, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Moheeb Rajab and Fabian Monrose, 17th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2008.
*[http://www.usenix.org/events/hotbots07/tech/full_papers/provos/provos.pdf The Ghost in the Browser: Analysis of Web-based Malware] Niels Provos, Dean McNamee, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Ke Wang, and Nagendra Modadugu, USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Understanding Botnets, April 2007.
*[http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/papers/detecting.pdf Detecting Steganographic Content on the Internet] Niels Provos and Peter Honeyman, ISOC NDSS'02, San Diego, CA, February 2002
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==Source==

[http://wikipedia.org/ http://wikipedia.org/]
[[Category:People of the industry]]
[[Category:Security]]
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* [[BitcoinX (application)]]
* [[DOFT]]
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