Robert Morris Sr.
Robert Morris worked at Bell Labs on Multics and Unix and contributed the Unix crypt program and password-encryption scheme. He died in 2011.
Robert Morris Sr. was an American cryptographer and computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs.
Unix work
His early Unix contributions included the math library, the crypt program, and a password-encryption scheme.
He also worked on Multics and was associated with the National Security Agency.
Legacy
His work helped establish password hashing as a fundamental operating-system security practice.
Timeline
- 1960Robert Morris Sr. is documented in security history sources.
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- Type
- Person
- Era
- 2000s-2010s
- Died
- 2018
- Known for
- New York Times intranet intrusion (2002); Reporting Chelsea Manning to the FBI (2010)
- Key date
- 2002
- Tags
- gray hat, whistleblower, media, ethics
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