Matt Blaze
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Matt Blaze is a researcher in the areas of secure systems, cryptography, and trust management. He is currently an Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania; he received his PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University.
In 1993, Blaze published (with John Ioannidis) a paper presenting a protocol ("swIPe") that was to be one of the forerunners of IPsec . In 1994, he found a means to circumvent the wiretapping mechanisms of the Clipper chip, contributing to the death of this government-sponsored initiative. In 2003, he independently rediscovered a serious vulnerability in "master key" security in physical locks that was an open secret among locksmiths; his decision to disclose it publicly provoked controversy.
Blaze coined the term trust management to refer to the policy system which decides whether a particular entity should be permitted to carry out a particular action, and has provided foundation research in this area.
[edit] Education
- Ph.D., Computer Science, January 1993. Princeton University. (Thesis: Caching in Large-Scale Distributed File Systems)
- M.A., Computer Science, June 1989. Princeton University.
- Columbia University, M.S., Computer Science, May 1988. Columbia University
- B.S., January 1986. City University of New York (Hunter College).
[edit] References
- ^ Ioannidis, John and Matt Blaze. The Architecture and Implementation of Network-Layer Security Under Unix, in Proc. of the 4th USENIX Security Symp., pages 29–39, Santa Clara, CA, USA, October 1993.
- Blaze's official biodata. "Matt Blaze - Research Summary and Bio". Retrieved on February 3, 2005.
