Matt Blaze
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 1992, while working for AT&T, Blaze implemented a strong cryptographic package known as "CFS", the Cryptographic File System, for Unix. CFS uses Network File System as its transport mechanism, allowing users to encrypt selected directory hierarchies, but mount them unencrypted after providing the key. In November, 1993, he presented a paper on this project, "A Cryptographic File System for Unix", at the 1st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Blaze also published a paper "Key Management in an Encrypting File System", in the Proceedings USENIX Summer 1994 Technical Conference.
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).
Publications
- ^ Ioannidis, John and Blaze, Matt. 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.
References
- "Security Flaw Allows Wiretaps to Be Evaded, Study Finds", John Schwartz and John Markoff, New York Times, November 30, 2005
- "Many Locks All Too Easy To Get Past", John Schwartz, New York Times, January 23, 2003
- "At AT&T, No Joy on Clipper Flaw", John Markoff, New York Times, June 3, 1994
- "Between a Hacker and a Hard Place", Peter H. Lewis, New York Times, April 10, 1995