Hugh Daniel (April 19, 1962,

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– June 3, 2013,

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) was a noted computer engineer.

Computer engineering

He was an early participant in the

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movement. He contributed significantly to the

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's (IETF) early standardization of

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(IPsec) and

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(DNSSEC). He is also noted for having managed the

FreeS/WAN FreeS/WAN, for Free Secure Wide-Area Networking, was a free software project, which implemented a reference version of the IPsec network security layer for Linux. The project goal of ubiquitous opportunistic encryption of Internet traffic was n ...

(Free Secure Wide-Area Networking) project, with the goal of securing Internet communication via

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of Internet traffic. He co-founded the

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project and Libreswan. He worked with the

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, and human rights groups in Guatemala. He worked on

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, the first

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system and helped set up

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(The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link) virtual community. Mr. Daniel was associated with groups responsible for the

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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. His other contributions to the field include work on the original

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. He worked with

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’s company Grasshopper Group in San Francisco, California, porting

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windowing system to

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(Apple Unix).

Interest in spaceflight

Daniel's interest in spaceflight led him to work for Starstruck, which built three rockets and successfully launched one suborbitally. His interest in space also lead to long discussions with

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about

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research. Noll's efforts managed to save the budget of the monitoring of

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and Voyager probes, as well as the New Horizon's probe past Pluto. In thanks, Noll was allowed to write some bytes in the "filler" part of the

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of New Horizon, including Daniel's IRC handle , , ugh.

Death

Hugh Daniel died of heart failure at age 51. To honor his enthusiasm and contributions to space, a gram of his remains were launched into space on the Celestis Sunjammer flight, along with

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& Majel Roddenberry and

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Quotes

Hugh was known for using expressive words such as "airfort", "Linux children" and "Republicrats". Some of his more famous quotes: "When you're NAT on the net, you're NOT on the net" "Beam me up, Scotty; there's no intelligent life here" "Get me off this planet!" "I'll be wearing a red shirt; you won't miss me"

References

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