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Loren Kohnfelder

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Loren Kohnfelder is best known for his MIT S.B. (BSCSE) thesis written in May 1978 describing a practical means of applying public key cryptography to secure network communications.

The Kohnfelder thesis introduced[1] the terms 'certificate' and 'certificate revocation list' as well as introducing numerous other concepts now established as important parts of public key infrastructure. The X.509 certificate specification that provides the basis for SSL, S/MIME and most modern PKI implementations are based on the Kohnfelder thesis.

He was also the co-creator of the STRIDE model of security threats, widely used in threat modeling.

References

  1. ^ "Proposed Model for Outsourcing PKI", Christopher McLaughlin, Royal Holloway, University of London, Technical Report RHUL-MA-2008-10, 2008-01-15


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