George Davida
George I. Davida is an American computer scientist and cryptographer. He is an outspoken proponent of public access to cryptography and an opponent of various National Security Agency (NSA) and US federal government policies and initiatives like the Clipper chip, a stance dating back to his 1977 reception of a gag order from the NSA[1][2] under the Invention Secrecy Act relating to a patent application for a stream cipher device,[3] using research funded by a National Science Foundation grant. He used to work at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Iowa. He was director of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee's Center for Cryptography, Computer and Network Security, until retiring in 2010.
References[edit]
- ^ Bamford, James (1982). The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization. Penguin. pp. 426–57.
- ^ Markoff, John (9 August 1989). "Paper on Codes Is Sent Despite U.S. Objections". New York Times (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y. p. A.16.
'The N.S.A. has bullied the academic community,' said George Davida, a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin. 'This dispute is typical of the kinds of things that I have warned about. The N.S.A. does not want to see research into cryptography.'
- ^ US 4202051, Davida, George I. & Wells, David L., "Digital data enciphering and deciphering circuit and method", issued 1980-05-06
External links[edit]
- "George I. Davida". uwm.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
- "Appendix E: Voluntary Restraints on Research with National Security Implications: The Case of Cryptography, 1975–1982 | Scientific Communication and National Security". The National Academies Press. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
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