Russ Housley
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Russ Housley is the current (2011) Chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF), since March 2007.
Apart from his IETF work, he is a security systems consultant, working under the company name Vigil Security LLC, which he founded in 2002.
Before starting Vigil Security, Housley has worked at the Air Force Data Services Center, Xerox
, SPYRUS and RSA Laboratories.
He has been active in the IETF and related groups since the mid-1980s, starting with the design of Privacy Enhanced Mail, the first attempts at standardizing a secure email function. He is listed as author of at least 43 RFCs.
He is also active in the security work of IEEE 802
, among others working to rectify the security deficencies of the IEEE 802.11
Wired Equivalent Privacy
(WEP) protocol.
Internet Engineering Task Force
The Internet Engineering Task Force develops and promotes Internet standards, cooperating closely with the W3C and ISO/IEC standards bodies and dealing in particular with standards of the TCP/IP and Internet protocol suite...
(IETF), since March 2007.
Apart from his IETF work, he is a security systems consultant, working under the company name Vigil Security LLC, which he founded in 2002.
Before starting Vigil Security, Housley has worked at the Air Force Data Services Center, Xerox
Xerox
Xerox Corporation is an American multinational document management corporation that produced and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies...
, SPYRUS and RSA Laboratories.
He has been active in the IETF and related groups since the mid-1980s, starting with the design of Privacy Enhanced Mail, the first attempts at standardizing a secure email function. He is listed as author of at least 43 RFCs.
He is also active in the security work of IEEE 802
IEEE 802
IEEE 802 refers to a family of IEEE standards dealing with local area networks and metropolitan area networks.More specifically, the IEEE 802 standards are restricted to networks carrying variable-size packets. IEEE 802 refers to a family of IEEE standards dealing with local area networks and...
, among others working to rectify the security deficencies of the IEEE 802.11
IEEE 802.11
IEEE 802.11 is a set of standards for implementing wireless local area network computer communication in the 2.4, 3.6 and 5 GHz frequency bands. They are created and maintained by the IEEE LAN/MAN Standards Committee . The base version of the standard IEEE 802.11-2007 has had subsequent...
Wired Equivalent Privacy
Wired Equivalent Privacy
Wired Equivalent Privacy is a weak security algorithm for IEEE 802.11 wireless networks. Introduced as part of the original 802.11 standard ratified in September 1999, its intention was to provide data confidentiality comparable to that of a traditional wired network...
(WEP) protocol.