Robert H. Morris (cryptologist)
Robert H. "Bob" Morris (born July 25, 1932 in Boston , † June 26, 2011 in Lebanon , New Hampshire ) was an American cryptologist .
Life
Morris studied mathematics at Harvard University and worked from 1960 to 1986 at Bell Laboratories , including in the Unix Research group , where he made various contributions to Unix , the encryption method still used today . He then started working for the National Security Agency (NSA) . There he was Senior Scientist at the National Computer Security Center until his retirement in 1994 . At the NSA he was also involved in the creation of the Technicolor Rainbow document collection , which describes the security standards of the US Department of Defense . In 1994 Robert H. Morris retired from Etna, New Hampshire .
He was married to Anne Farlow Morris and had two sons and a daughter. In 1988, his son Robert Tappan Morris programmed the first computer worm that spread widely on the Internet . His work for the National Security Agency and the spread of computer worm his son are in the book Kuckucksei by Clifford Stoll discussed.
literature
- John Markoff: Robert Morris, Pioneer in Computer Security, Dies at 78 . In: The New York Times , June 29, 2011.
Web links
- Dennis Ritchie : Dabbling in the Cryptographic World - A Story ( Memento of October 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). (Treatise on the cryptological research carried out by Robert H. Morris and Dennis Ritchie.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dennis Ritchie: Dabbling in the Cryptographic World - A Story ( Memento of 16 October 2008 at the Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morris, Robert H. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Morris, Bob (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American cryptologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 2011 |
| Place of death | Lebanon , New Hampshire |