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Loren Kohnfelder

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S.B. (BSCSE) thesis, which described a practical means of using public key cryptography to secure network communications. The Kohnfelder thesis introduced the terms "
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Kohnfelder, Loren M., Towards a Practical Public-Key Cryptosystem, May 1978.
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and most modern PKI implementations are based Kohnfelder's thesis.
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model of security threats, widely used in threat modeling.
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He was also the co-creator, with Praerit Garg, of the
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certificate specification that provides the basis for
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computer scientist
public key cryptography
public key infrastructure
MIT
certificate
certificate revocation list
X.509
SSL
S/MIME
STRIDE
No Starch Press
"Proposed Model for Outsourcing PKI"
Royal Holloway
University of London
Simson L. Garfinkel
https://simson.net/thesis/
"Designing Secure Software"
Kohnfelder, Loren M., Towards a Practical Public-Key Cryptosystem, May 1978.
Kohnfelder's Medium blog
Categories
Computer security specialists
Living people
Public key infrastructure

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