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).[1] Although the cryptoanalysis was done independently, he is known for his relations to DeCSS,[2] 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.[3]

Games credited

Stevenson has been credited with the following video games:[4]

gollark: Well, I mean, we're apparently going backward.
gollark: What reactions? We should get umnikos to revote using [EXPUNGED].
gollark: What if we give you permissions, but when you use them it gives everyone an announcement saying lyric bad?
gollark: Well, we could just leave you with permissions but tell you to never use them.
gollark: Wait, I have those permissions, and *LyricLy* frequently pings everyone and is unpunished for it.

See also

References
  1. Frank Stevenson's CSS Cracks - A compilation of links relating to Stevenson's CSS analysis
  2. CSS cryptoanalysis
  3. New 'Kraken' GSM-cracking software is released, Computerworld, July 21, 2010.
  4. http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,42860/
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