Brian LaMacchia

Brian A. LaMacchia is a computer security specialist.[1]

LaMacchia is best known for his work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology establishing the MIT PGP Key Server, the first key centric PKI implementation to see wide-scale use. LaMacchia wrote the first Web interface for a PGP Key Server.

LaMacchia currently works for Microsoft where he is Director of Security and Cryptography in Microsoft Research; previously he was the Director of Security and Cryptography in the Microsoft Extreme Computing Group. He played a leading role in the design of XKMS, the security architecture for .NET and Palladium. He designed and led the development team for the .NET security architecture. He was a security architect on Palladium. His most-referenced work is[2] the .Net Framework.

He has played a leading role in the design of W3C XMLDsig and XKMS standards. In particular he is an author of versions 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0 XMLDsig. He is a contributor to XKMS. He is coauthor on OASIS standard WS-SECURITY.

LaMacchia earned S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees from MIT in 1990, 1991, and 1996, respectively.

LaMacchia is currently serving his second three-year term as Treasurer of the International Association for Cryptologic Research.[3] He first joined the IACR Board of Directors in 2015 as General Chair of CRYPTO 2016.[4] LaMacchia also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Seattle Opera.[5] He previously served for ten years as member of the Board of Directors of the Seattle International Film Festival, including the 2015-2016 term as President of SIFF.

References
  1. Lehtinen, Rick; Russell, Deborah; Gangemi, G. T. (2006-06-20). Computer Security Basics. O'Reilly Media, Inc. pp. 179–. ISBN 9780596006693. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
  2. LaMacchia, Brian A. (2002). NET Framework Security. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 9780672321849.
  3. https://www.iacr.org/bod.html
  4. https://www.iacr.org/conferences/crypto2016/contactinfo.html
  5. https://www.seattleopera.org/about/board-of-directors/


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