17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Dr. Denning is a secure systems (OS and databases) research from SRI. Her background is in capability-based OS (her advisor was MUTICS designer Peter Denning, whom she married) and inference of private data from statistical data bases. Her work is interesting and potentially contributes to our privacy, but has little direct connection to cryptanalysis. Phil's objection seems quite reasonable. I recall a profile of the Dr's Denning in one of the popular cracker/phreax exposes, (maybe in Markov/Hafner?) Andy