Steven M. Bellovin

Steven M. Bellovin (* in Brooklyn, New York ) is an American researcher in the area of ​​computer networks and security. He is currently a professor in the computer science faculty at Columbia University and was previously an employee at AT & T Labs Research in New Jersey.

Career

He received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University and a Master of Science and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a Master student, he was one of the inventors of Usenet. Later he recommended, Gene Spafford should the phage mailing list create in response to the Morris worm. He and Michael Merritt invented the encrypted -key -exchange -Password- authenticated -key agreement methods.

Bellovin has been 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 acknowledged some vulnerabilities in the Domain Name System. These and other shortcomings led to the development of DNSSEC.

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

He was responsible for the discovery that one- time pads were invented in 1882 and not, as originally suspected 1917. Bellovin is also NetBSD developers.