Matt Curtin (b. 1973) is a computer scientist and entrepreneur in Columbus, Ohio best known for his work in cryptography and firewall (networking) systems. Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. Columbus is the Capital and the largest city of the US state of Ohio. Cryptography (or cryptology; from Greek grc κρυπτός kryptos, "hidden secret" and grc γράφω gráphō, "I write" A firewall is an integrated collection of security measures designed to prevent unauthorized electronic access to a networked computer system He is the founder of Interhack Corporation and lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University, where he teaches a Common Lisp course. The Ohio State University ( OSU) is a Coeducational public Research university in the state of Ohio. Common Lisp, commonly abbreviated CL, is a dialect of the Lisp Programming language, published in ANSI standard document Information The author of two books, Developing Trust: Online Privacy and Security and Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard. Brute Force (2005 Copernicus Books is a book by Matt Curtin about Cryptography.
Curtin's work includes helping to prove the weakness of the Data Encryption Standard and providing expert testimony in Blumofe v. The Data Encryption Standard ( DES) is a Cipher (a method for Encrypting information selected by NBS as an official Federal Information Pharmatrak, in which a key ruling was made by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, showing how the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) applies to Web technology. The United States courts of appeals (or circuit courts) are the intermediate appellate courts