Hugh Daniel (April 19, 1962, Chicago, Illinois – June 3, 2013, Pacifica, California) was a noted computer engineer.[1]
Hugh Daniel | |
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 Hugh Daniel at the Ottawa Linux Symposium | |
| Born | April 19, 1962 |
| Died | June 3, 2013 (aged 51) |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Manager of FreeS/WAN project, Libertarianism, Cypherpunk |
Computer engineering
editHe was an early participant in the Cypherpunk movement. He contributed significantly to the Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF) early standardization of Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) and Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC).[2] He is also noted for having managed the FreeS/WAN (Free Secure Wide-Area Networking) project, with the goal of securing Internet communication via opportunistic encryption of Internet traffic. He co-founded the Openswan project and Libreswan.[3] He worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and human rights groups in Guatemala. He worked on Project Xanadu, the first hypertext system and helped set up The WELL (The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link) virtual community.[4] Mr. Daniel was associated with groups responsible for the optical character recognition processing of the PGP5 source code at the HIP'97 con, a Quadrennial Dutch hacker convention that took place from August 8 until August 10, 1997, at the campsite Kotterbos in Almere, Netherlands.[5] His other contributions to the field include work on the original Apple Laserwriter. He worked with John Gilmore’s company Grasshopper Group in San Francisco, California, porting Sun Microsystems' NeWS windowing system to A/UX (Apple Unix).
Interest in spaceflight
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Daniel's spent time at the Lick Observatory and was influence early on by Star Trek, having a love of space, with his final resting place being onboard a Memorial Spaceflight.[6]
Daniel's interest in spaceflight led him to work for Starstruck, which built three rockets and successfully launched one sub-orbitally.
His interest in space also lead to long discussions with Landon Curt Noll about Pluto research. Noll's efforts managed to save the budget of the monitoring of Pioneer and Voyager probes, as well as the New Horizon's probe past Pluto. In thanks, Noll was allowed to write some bytes in the "filler" part of the PROM of New Horizon, including Daniel's IRC handle: ||ugh.
Death
editHugh Daniel died of heart failure at age 51. To honor his enthusiasm and contributions to space, a gram of his remains were launched into space on the Celestis Sunjammer flight,[7] along with Gene and Majel Roddenberry, and James Doohan.
Quotes
editHugh was known for using expressive words such as "airfort", "Linux children" and "Republicrats". Some of his more famous quotes:
"When you're NAT on the net, you're NOT on the net"
"Beam me up, Scotty; there's no intelligent life here"
"Get me off this planet!"
"I'll be wearing a red shirt; you won't miss me"
References
edit- ^ "Obituary: Hugh Daniel". Sfsite.com. 2013-06-04. Retrieved 2013-07-01.
- ^ "Re: [IPsec] Hugh Daniel has passed away". Ietf.org. Retrieved 2013-06-30.
- ^ "The Libreswan Project". Libreswan.org. Retrieved 2013-06-30.
- ^ "LISA '03: 17th Large Installation Systems Administration Conference". Retrieved 2016-11-17.
- ^ Callas, Jon (1997-08-09), Image 5 - 8:9:97, retrieved 2023-01-05
- ^ "Hugh Daniel | Memorial Spaceflights". www.celestis.com. Retrieved 2024-10-18.
- ^ "Celestis Voyager Flight Participants". Celestis.com. Archived from the original on 2014-10-18. Retrieved 2014-06-30.