Re: Hugh Daniel has passed away

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In message <B95823D9-7998-46ED-86D6-E7FF05FBCD72@xxxxxxxxxx>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pa
trik_F=E4ltstr=F6m?= writes:
> Oh.......
> 
> What to say, what to add?
> 
>   Patrik -- sad

Sad indeed.  Just used one of those key chain lights the other day.

Mark
 
> On 5 jun 2013, at 00:32, Paul Wouters <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >=20
> > Hugh Daniel passed away on June 3rd after what appears to have been a =
> heart attack.
> >=20
> > https://nohats.ca/hugh-of-borg.jpg
> >=20
> >=20
> > Those who met him, know him. Principled to the core, and very present =
> in
> > any room, he compelled people to listen to him - both by what he said,
> > and how loud he said it.
> >=20
> > He has made many contributions during the early days of IPsec and
> > DNSSEC. He was a manager of the FreeS/WAN Project for many years and
> > co-founder of The Openswan Project and recently The Libreswan Project,
> > although his health prevented him from being as active and he wanted =
> to
> > be in the last two years.
> >=20
> > I met him for the first time at the CCC summer conference in 1999. Our
> > car had broken down, and everyone around me suggested to find Hugh =
> Daniel
> > for help. He shone his freeswan photon light under the car, diagnosed
> > the problem, and put in a quick fix we could carefully drive to a =
> repair
> > shop at 5km/h where we could tell the mechanic what to fix. We started
> > talking about Linux, crypto and he recruited me for the FreeS/WAN and
> > the goal to make the default mode of the internet encrypted. It is =
> what
> > started me on IPsec, Opportunistic Encryption and DNS(SEC). In 2003,
> > he brought me to my first IETF in Vienna.
> >=20
> > Hugh, you are still causing a difference and we will raise a =
> non-aloholic
> > drink in your honour when we have reached the universal deployment
> > of encrypted communication for everything.
> >=20
> >=20
> >=20
> > 	"When you're NAT on the net, you're NOT on the net"  -- Hugh =
> Daniel
> >=20
> 
-- 
Mark Andrews, ISC
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: marka@xxxxxxx




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