Phillip Hallam-Baker is a computer scientist, mostly known for contributions to Internet security, since the design of

HTTP The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web, w ...

CERN The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in a northwestern suburb of Gene ...

in 1992. Self-employed since 2018 as a consultant and expert witness in court cases, he previously worked at Comodo, Verisign Inc., and at MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is a frequent participant in IETF meetings and discussions, and has written a number of RFCs. In 2007 he authored ''the dotCrime Manifesto: How to Stop Internet Crime''; although the book is readable by novices,

Ron Rivest Ronald Linn Rivest (; born May 6, 1947) is a cryptographer and an Institute Professor at MIT. He is a member of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a member of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Int ...

still considered it a source of ideas for his course on Computer and Network Security at MIT in 2013.

Biography

Hallam-Baker has a degree in electronic engineering from the

School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton Electronics and Computer Science, generally abbreviated "ECS", at the University of Southampton was founded in 1946 by Professor Erich Zepler. It offers 23 undergraduate courses (in computer science, Web Science, electronic engineering, electr ...

and a doctorate in Computer Science from the Nuclear Physics Department at Oxford University. He was appointed a Post Doctoral Research Associate at DESY in 1992 and CERN Fellow in 1993. Hallam-Baker worked with the Clinton-Gore ’92 Internet campaign. While at the MIT Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence, he worked on developing a security plan and performed seminal work on securing high-profile federal government internet sites.

IETF Contributions

* with J. Franks, J. Hostetler, P. Leach, A. Luotonen, E. Sink, L. Stewart, ''An Extension to HTTP : Digest Access Authentication'' * with J. Franks, J. Hostetler, S. Lawrence, P. Leach, A. Luotonen, L. Stewart, ''HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication'' * with S. Boeyen, ''Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Repository Locator Service'' * with T. Hansen, D. Crocker, ''DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Service Overview'' * with T. Hansen, E. Siegel, D. Crocker, ''DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Development, Deployment, and Operations'' * with S. Santesson, ''Online Certificate Status Protocol Algorithm Agility'' * with R. Stradling, ''DNS Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) Resource Record'' * with S. Farrell, D. Kutscher, C. Dannewitz, B. Ohlman, A. Keranen, ''Naming Things with Hashes''

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