Matt Blaze

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Matt Blaze
Distributed systems[1]
InstitutionsGeorgetown University[2]
University of Pennsylvania[1]
Bell Labs[3]
WebsiteMattBlaze.org

Matt Blaze is an American researcher who focuses on the areas of secure systems,

Tor Project.[5]

Work

Blaze 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, since ported to Linux.[6] 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.[7] Blaze also published a paper "Key Management in an Encrypting File System", in the Proceedings USENIX Summer 1994 Technical Conference.

In the early 1990s, at the height of the "

Cypherpunks mailing list[8] and in 1994, he found a critical weakness in the wiretapping mechanisms of the Clipper chip.[3]
His paper, Protocol Failure in the Escrowed Encryption Standard,
key lengths.[12]

After leaving Bell, Blaze was an associate professor of computer and information science at the

Georgetown Law
and the department of computer science.

In 2015, Blaze was part of a team of proponents that included Steven M. Bellovin, J. Alex Halderman, Nadia Heninger, and Andrea M. Matwyshyn who successfully proposed a security research exemption to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.[15]

In July 2016, the complete board of the

Tor Project resigned and announced a new board, including Matt Blaze.[16][17]

In 2018, crypto Visa card company Monaco paid Blaze an undisclosed amount for the rights to the domain Crypto.com.[18] Blaze had registered the domain in 1993 and sellers have estimated that the value of the domain was US$5–10 million.[19]

Education

  • Ph.D., Computer Science, January 1993. Princeton University. (Dissertation: Caching in Large-Scale Distributed File Systems)
  • M.A., Computer Science, June 1989. Princeton University
  • M.S., Computer Science, May 1988. Columbia University
  • B.S., January 1986. City University of New York (Hunter College)

Publications

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Penn Engineering - Research Directory Profile". Princeton University. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
  2. ^ a b c "One of World's Leading Computer and Network Security Experts Joins Georgetown Faculty". law.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
  3. ^ a b Markoff, John (3 June 1994). "At AT&T, No Joy on Clipper Flaw". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  4. ^ "Matthew Blaze Moves to Georgetown University". Meritalk.com. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
  5. ^ Perlroth, Nicole (13 July 2016). "Tor Project, a Digital Privacy Group, Reboots With New Board". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  6. ^ "Using CFS, the Cryptographic Filesystem", Oct 15, 2002, Jerry Sweet, Linux Journal
  7. ^ "A Cryptographic File System for Unix", Matt Blaze, att.com
  8. ^ Rodger, Will (30 November 2001). "Cypherpunks RIP". The Register. Retrieved 14 July 2016. Past participants include noted cryptographers such as Matt Blaze ...
  9. ^ a b Blaze, Matt (August 20, 1994). "Protocol Failure in the Escrowed Encryption Standard" (PDF). Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security: 59–67.
  10. New York Times
    , November 30, 2005
  11. ^ Between a Hacker and a Hard Place", Peter H. Lewis, The New York Times, April 10, 1995
  12. Fortify
    . Retrieved 14 October 2011.
  13. ^ "Penn Engineering Profile". Seas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
  14. ^ @mattblaze (July 30, 2022). "So we got into this vicious (to him) or virtuous (to me) cycle, where every time I'd do any researching or give any…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  15. ^ "Section 1201 Rulemaking: Sixth Triennial Proceeding to Determine Exemptions to the Prohibition on Circumvention" (PDF).
  16. ^ "Tor Project installs new board of directors after Jacob Appelbaum controversy", Colin Lecher, July 13, 2016, The Verge
  17. ^ "The Tor Project Elects New Board of Directors" Archived 2017-08-06 at the Wayback Machine, July 13th, 2016, Tor.org
  18. ^ Russell, Jon (8 July 2018). "Crypto Visa card company Monaco just spent millions to buy Crypto.com". TechCrunch.
  19. ^ Robertson, Adi (2018-07-06). "Crypto.com, the multimillion-dollar cryptography domain whose owner refused to sell, has been sold". The Verge. Retrieved November 19, 2021.

External links

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