Hugh Daniel
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Hugh Daniel | |
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 Hugh Daniel at the Ottawa Linux Symposium | |
| Born | April 19, 1962 |
| Died | June 3, 2013 (aged 51) |
| Known for | Manager of FreeS/WAN project, Libertarianism, Cypherpunk |
Hugh Daniel (April 19, 1962, Chicago, Illinois – June 3, 2013, Pacifica, California) was a noted computer engineer.[1]
He was an early participant in the Cypherpunk movement. He contributed significantly to the Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF) early standardization of Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) and Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC).[2] He is also noted for having managed the FreeS/WAN (Free Secure Wide-Area Networking) project, with the goal of securing Internet communication via opportunistic encryption of Internet traffic. He co-founded the Openswan project and Libreswan.[3] He worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and human rights groups in Guatemala. He worked on Project Xanadu, the first hypertext system and helped set up The WELL (The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link) virtual community.[4] Mr. Daniel was associated with groups responsible for the optical character recognition processing of the PGP5 source code at the HIP'97 con, a Quadrennial Dutch hacker convention that took place from August 8 until August 10, 1997, at the campsite Kotterbos in Almere, Netherlands.[5] His other contributions to the field include work on the original Apple Laserwriter. He worked with John Gilmore’s company Grasshopper Group in San Francisco, California, porting Sun Microsystems' NeWS windowing system to A/UX (Apple Unix).
