Dorothy E. Denning

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Dorothy Elizabeth Denning (the daughter of C. Lowell and Helen Watson Robling on August 12, 1945) is an American information security researcher. She has published four books and 120 articles. At Georgetown University, she was a professor of computer science and director of the Science and Technology in International Affairs program. She is now a professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School.

Denning has received several awards. Among them are the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award, National Computer Systems Security Award, and the 2004 Harold F. Tipton Award "in recognition of her outstanding information security career". In 1995 she was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery^[1] .

Denning also privately reviewed, at federal request, the Skipjack block cipher. In Congressional testimony, she pointed out that general publication of the algorithm would enable someone to build a hardware or software product that used SKIPJACK without escrowing keys.^[2]

Contents 1 Family 2 Bibliography 3 Notes 4 External links

[edit] Family

In 1974 she married Peter J. Denning. He is currently the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at the Naval Postgraduate School.

[edit] Bibliography

Denning, Dorothy E. (1999). Information Warfare and Security. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-43303-6. 

Denning, Dorothy Elizabeth Robling (1982). Cryptography and Data Security. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-10150-5. 

Denning, Dorothy Elizabeth Robling (1990). Concerning Hackers Who Break into Computer Systems. Digital Equipment Systems Research Center. 

[edit] Notes

1. ^ ACM Fellows Award: Dorothy Denning. The Association for Computing Machinery (1995). Retrieved on 2008-04-01.
2. ^ Brickell, Ernest F.; Denning, Dorothy E.; Kent, Stephen T.; Maher, David P. & Tuchman, Walter (1993-07-28), “Interim Report, The SKIPJACK Algorithm”, SKIPJACK Review, pp. 8 .

[edit] External links

• Dorothy Denning's Home Page at Naval Postgraduate School
• The Future of Cryptography, an essay in which Denning gives her view of the future
• Dorothy Denning's Home Page at Georgetown University, not updated since 2002
• Silver Bullet Security Podcast interview of Denning by Gary McGraw
• Gifts of Speech Testimony Concerning Computer Encryption by Dorothy Denning
• Ruritania, a classic Internet satire of Denning's opposition to citizen cryptography