Secure Network Programming
Secure Network Programming (SNP) is a prototype of the first Secure Sockets Layer, designed and built in 1993 by the Networking Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin, led by Simon S. Lam. This work was published in the 1994 USENIX Summer Technical Conference. For this project, the authors won the 2004 ACM Software System Award.
For inventing secure sockets in 1991 and implementing the first secure sockets layer, named SNP, in 1993.
Simon S. Lam is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He retired in 2018 from The University of Texas at Austin as Professor Emeritus and Regents' Chair Emeritus in Computer Science #1. He made seminal and important contributions to transport layer security, packet network verification, as well as network protocol design, verification, and performance analysis.
Simon S. Lam
National Academy of Engineering Class of 2007