Steven Bellovin

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Steven M. Bellovin (* in Brooklyn , USA ) is an American researcher in the field of computer networks and information security . He is currently a professor in the Computer Science Faculty at Columbia University and previously worked at AT&T Labs Research in New Jersey .

Career

He received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University and a Masters of Science and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . As a master’s student , he was one of the inventors of Usenet . He later recommended that Gene Spafford create the phage mailing list in response to the Morris worm . He and Michael Merritt invented the encrypted-key-exchange - password-authenticated-key-agreement methods.

Bellovin was active in the Internet Engineering Task Force . From 1996 to 2002 he was a member of the Internet Architecture Board . From 2002 to 2004 he was a member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group . He recognized some weaknesses in the Domain Name System . These and other weaknesses led to the development of DNSSEC .

In 2001 he was recognized by the National Academy of Engineering for his work in the field of networks and security. In 2007 he received the National Computer Systems Security Award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Security Agency .

He was responsible for discovering that one-time pads were invented as early as 1882 and not as originally thought in 1917. Bellovin is also a NetBSD developer.

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SURNAME Bellovin, Steven
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bellovin, Steven M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century