Erik Andersen Editor of ITU-T X.509 | Independent Consultant, Andersen, L-Service, Denmark
Erik Andersen was employed by IBM for 27 years and was in the early 1980th appointed by IBM to be the IBM representative in Danish Standards (OSI). Became chair of the Danish committee for Open Systems Interconnection standardization and participated in numerous international meetings within ISO/IEC and was quite active. After leaving IBM, continued to work for international standardization in European standardization arena. Was during four study periods rapporteur for the question, currently Question 11, that is responsible for the ITU.T X.500 series, which is collaborative work with ISO/IEC, which has published the series as ISO/IEC 9594-all parts. Has for 12 years or more been the project editor for the ITU-T X.500 series, also on the ISO/IEC side. Rec. ITU-T X.509, alias ISO/IEC 9594-8, is part of the ITU-T X.500 series. X.509 being the framework for public-key infrastructure is an extremely important specification.
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Herbert Bertine ITU-T Study Group Former Chair
Herbert Bertine is a former chairman of ITU-T Study Group 17 and previously Study Group 7, having served from 1993 to 2008. He has been actively involved in the standards work of the ITU since 1975 and has held senior leadership positions for 28 years. He has devoted extensive efforts in facilitating cooperation with SDOs. Herb also has been active in other arenas dealing with ICT standards including ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6 and ANSI. He was instrumental in developing the collaborative procedures between ITU-T and JTC 1 (reflected in Rec. A.23) and in establishing the cooperative procedures with the IETF. Herb retired in November 2007. He was Director, Standards at Lucent Technologies where he led Lucent standards efforts worldwide. He joined Bell Laboratories in June 1965 and spent his career in communication technologies. This included systems engineering work on modems, digital data systems, X.25 packet networks, open systems, and advanced communication systems. Since 1982, he had various responsibilities for corporate-wide standards management. In October 2006, Herb was awarded the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Edward Lohse Information Technology Medal for outstanding technical and managerial leadership in establishing international information technology and telecommunications standards and the methods by which they are produced. Herb has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree and a Master of Electrical Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Russell Housley Founder of Vigil Security, LLC | Former IETF Chair (2007-2013)
Mr. Housley is an expert in security protocols, system engineering and system security architectures, and he has authored many Internet standards. He has over 30 years of communications and computer security experience, and he is the Founder of Vigil Security, LLC. He served as Chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) from 2007 to 2013. He on the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) from 2007 to 2017, and he served as Chair of the IAB from 2013 to 2015. He was an IETF Security Area Director from 2003 to 2007. He also served in leadership positions of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), including the IEEE 802 Executive Committee in the early 1990s. Mr. Housley has authored several Internet security standards, including the Cryptographic Message Syntax, which provides the foundation for electronic mail security, and the Internet X.509 Certificate Profile, which provides the infrastructure to identify and authenticate websites and users. In the IEEE, he made significant technical contributions Local Area Network security standards, particularly IEEE 802.10 and IEEE 802.11i, which is implemented as Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2). He is co-author of two technical books: Planning for PKI and Implementing Email and Security Tokens.
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Hoyt L Kesterson II Senior Security & Risk Architect, Avertium, United States
Hoyt L Kesterson II is a Senior Security & Risk Architect with Terra Verde. He has more than 40 years of experience in information security. For 21 years he chaired the international standards group that created the X.509 public-key certificate, a fundamental component in digital signature and securing web transactions. He is a co-chair and founding member of the ABA’s Information Security Committee. He is a testifying expert. He is a PCI QSA who helps clients meet compliance requirements for ensuring that the integrity and confidentiality of payment card data are maintained. He holds the CISSP and CISA certifications.
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Stiepan Kovac QRC Eurosmart SA, Luxembourg
Mr. Kovac, CEO of the QRC group of companies (Quantum Resistant Cryptography), is a co-editor of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC27 18033-2 Amd2 with the goal to add « post quantum » ciphers to that standard likewise the editor of ITU-T X.1197 Amd1 (2019), the first ever comprehensive quantum resistant cryptography recommendation, followed by X.1811 which provides it with a good practice for use in 5G networks and H.551 which extends its recommended use to vehicular multimedia. He is also the main driving force of European cryptography standardization.
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Jean-Paul Lemaire Question 11/17 Rapporteur | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 6/WG 10 Convenor
Jean-Paul Lemaire worked between 1978 and 1996 as civil servant in University Paris Diderot in charge of systems, networks, and security. Since 1998, he is involved in standardization of ASN.1 then also Directory. Since 2017, he is Rapporteur of Q11/17 (Generic technologies to support secure applications) and, also Convenor of ISO/IEC/JTC 1/SC 6/ WG10 (Directory, ASN.1 and registration). He is also lecturer in Gustave Eiffel University (France) and works also as consultant in development of applications related to security.
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Anthony Michael Rutkowski CEO, Netmagic Associates LLC
Tony Rutkowski is an engineer-lawyer with an extremely diverse, sixty-year professional career spanning the telecommunication, mobile, internet, satellite, and broadcasting fields in the U.S. and Europe where he has shaped major technical and legal developments in senior governmental, company, and academic leadership positions at international, national, and local levels. Over the past two decades, his roles have been focused on significant international and U.S. Federal network security initiatives relating to cybersecurity, infrastructure protection, extraterritorial security law, and lawful interception for new networks and services. Currently, as the CEO of Netmagic Associates LLC, he provides technical and regulatory analytical and consulting services to a few entities that include the Center for Internet Security. He engages actively in a broad array of governmental and industry security forums – largely internationally. Over the past several years, he has assumed rapporteur responsibilities in the ETSI Cyber Security Technical Committee for a number of major specifications and reports and served as an ENISA consultant. Over the past 20 years, he assumed rapporteur responsibilities in the ETSI Lawful Interception Technical Committee and chair of the OASIS LegalXML LI Technical Committee. He continues to serve as the liaison among multiple international network security bodies. He also writes extensively in multiple professional publications and speaks on network security related developments and history. |
Doug Steedman CCITT Special Rapporteur of Question 35/ VII, Directory Systems (1985-1988)Software Engineer, Google Inc.nc
Doug Steedman was the CCITT Special Rapporteur for Directory Systems during 1985-1988, leading the international group that produced the first versions of the X.500 standards (including X.509). He was also the editor for those documents. Doug was also one of the creators of ASN.1. After his standardization work, during which he represented Bell-Northern Research in Canada, he returned to software engineering, joining General Magic in California to work on the Telescript language for Mobile Agents. Subsequently he worked on security for WebTV Networks and Microsoft. Currently Doug is a software engineer at Google Inc in San Francisco
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