Steven Bellovin
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Steve Bellovin is a computer security expert who was at Bell Labs for many years and is currently (2010) at Columbia University. He has been quite active in the IETF. He was a member of the Internet Architecture Board 1996-2002, and IETF Security Area co-director, and hence a member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), 2002-2004.
He has a home page at Columbia. "I do research on networks, security and why the two don't get along." Bellovin has been a member of the Cypherpunk movement.
With William Cheswick, he introduced the concept of the firewall. [1]
He has written on issues in the technical control of nuclear weapons, especially Permissive Action Links.[2]
References
- ↑ Steve Bellovin and William Cheswick, Firewalls and Internet Security, Addison-Wesley
- ↑ Steven Bellovin (21 October 2005), Permissive Action Links, Nuclear Weapons, and the History of Public Key Cryptography, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University