Matt Curtin (born 1973) is a computer scientist and entrepreneur in Columbus, Ohio best known for his work in

cryptography Cryptography, or cryptology (from grc, , translit=kryptós "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or ''-logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adver ...

and

firewall Firewall may refer to: * Firewall (computing), a technological barrier designed to prevent unauthorized or unwanted communications between computer networks or hosts * Firewall (construction), a barrier inside a building, designed to limit the spr ...

systems. He is the founder of Interhack Corporation, first faculty advisor of Open Source Club at The Ohio State University, and lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The

Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...

, where he teaches a Common Lisp course. The author of two books, ''Developing Trust: Online Privacy and Security'' and '' Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard''. Curtin's work includes helping to prove the weakness of the

Data Encryption Standard The Data Encryption Standard (DES ) is a symmetric-key algorithm for the encryption of digital data. Although its short key length of 56 bits makes it too insecure for modern applications, it has been highly influential in the advancement of cry ...

and providing expert testimony in ''Blumofe v. Pharmatrak'', in which a key ruling was made by the

U.S. Court of Appeals The United States courts of appeals are the intermediate appellate courts of the United States federal judiciary. The courts of appeals are divided into 11 numbered circuits that cover geographic areas of the United States and hear appeals fr ...

for the First Circuit, showing how the

Electronic Communications Privacy Act Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA) was enacted by the United States Congress to extend restrictions on government wire taps of telephone calls to include transmissions of electronic data by computer ( ''et seq.''), added new pr ...

(ECPA) applies to Web technology.

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Matt Curtin's homepageInterhack Corporation
1973 births Computer systems researchers American computer scientists Cypherpunks Living people Ohio State University faculty Businesspeople from Columbus, Ohio Place of birth missing (living people) Engineers from Ohio {{cryptography-stub