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Robert Morris was the cryptographer’s cryptographer. A compiler developer and contributor to Unix at Bell Labs, he developed the password encryption scheme for authenticating users, the direct descendants of which are still in use today. He also wrote the program we know and love as crypt as well as the math library. He went on to work for the government, including decoding encrypted evidence for the FBI and planning cyberattacks on Iraq’s command-and-control systems in the first Gulf War.
You may be forgiven for mistaking him for his similarly-named son, Robert Tappan Morris, who gained notoriety for accidentally creating the Morris Worm.
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www.globalnerdy.com/2011 ··· -morris/Wow this was one impressive and interesting dude, insanely brilliant, but often I thought he was orbiting a different star then the rest of us. A true pioneer in security, thanks.
Robert Morris quotes:
- Never underestimate the attention, risk, money and time that an opponent will put into reading traffic.
- Rule 1 of cryptanalysis: check for plaintext.
-The three golden rules to ensure computer security are: do not own a computer; do not power it on; and do not use it.
Blake
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Vendor: Author of Link Logger which is a traffic analysis and firewall logging tool 
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