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 was a participant on the Cypherpunk mailing list and on its successor, [[Perry Metzger's cryptography list.

While a graduate student, Bellovin was one of the people who created [[Usenet. He and two others — [[Tom Truscott and [[Jim Ellis — received the [[Usenix associations [[Flame award for this in 1995.

With [[William Cheswick, he introduced the concept of the [[firewall. [1] [2]

He has written on issues in the technical control of [[nuclear weapons, especially [[Permissive Action Links.[3]

References

  1. Steve Bellovin and William Cheswick (1994), Firewalls and Internet Security, Addison-Wesley
  2. William R. Cheswick, Steven M. Bellovin, and Aviel D. Rubin (2003), Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley
  3. {{citation | title = Permissive Action Links, Nuclear Weapons, and the History of Public Key Cryptography | author = Steven Bellovin | publisher = Department of Computer Science, [[Columbia University | date = 21 October 2005 | url = http://www.cs.columbia.edu/˜smb }}