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Ross John Anderson FRS FREng FIMA FIET [6][7][4] (15 September 1956[4] - 28 March 2024) was a researcher, author, and industry consultant in security engineering.[5] He was Professor of Security Engineering at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge[8] where he was part of the University's security group.[9][10][11]

Anderson was educated at the High School of Glasgow.[4] In 1978, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and natural science from the University of Cambridge where he was an undergraduate student of Trinity College, Cambridge, and subsequently received a qualification in computer engineering. Anderson worked in the avionics and banking industry before moving back to the University of Cambridge in 1992, to work on his doctorate under the supervision of Roger Needham[12] and start his career as an academic researcher.[2] He received his PhD in 1995, and became a lecturer in the same year.[4]

Anderson's research interests[1][3][9] were in security, cryptology, dependability and technology policy.[1] In cryptography, he designed with Eli Biham the BEAR, LION and Tiger cryptographic primitives, and co-wrote with Biham and Lars Knudsen the block cipher Serpent, one of the finalists in the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) competition. He also discovered weaknesses in the FISH cipher and designed the stream cipher Pike.