Jeff’s Blog

I am a member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and have been from very close to “the beginning” having attended over 50 meetings of the group. In the 1990’s the IETF developed what is now known as IPv6, the next generation of the Internet Protocol (the current generation is referred to as IPv4).
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I have been involved in Internet Security for about 20 or so years. One of the holy grails that we have pursued is the global Internet Authentication system. In the 1980’s we developed Kerberos at MIT. Kerberos was one of the first practical cryptographic based authentication systems on the Internet. Prior to the […]