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About Frank A. Stevenson
- Frank A.
- Stevenson (born 1970) is a Norwegian software developer, and part-time cryptanalyst.
- He is primarily known for his exposition of weaknesses in the DVD Forum's Content Scramble System (CSS).
- Although the cryptoanalysis was done independently, he is known for his relations to DeCSS, and appeared before the courts as a witness in the Jon Johansen court trial.
- He also gave a deposition for the DVD CCA v.
- McLaughlin, Bunner, et al.
- case. Stevenson worked for Funcom as a game developer for many years, after which he moved to Kvaleberg to work on mobile phone software.
- In July 2010, Stevenson published information about vulnerabilities in the A5/1 encryption algorithm used by most 2G GSM networks, and also showed the Kraken software, that demonstrates that the crypto indeed can be broken with modest hardware.
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