Hardware-based Computer Security Techniques to Defeat Hackers: From Biometrics to Quantum Cryptography

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to express sincere appreciation to a number of professional colleagues who aided in my education as a physicist and my immersive education in the computer security field. The Experimental General Relativity Group at Princeton provided an environment in which a young physicist could learn fundamental approaches to difficult weak signal detection problems. Bill Wickes, the late Dave Wilkinson, Jim Peebles, and Ed Groth provided engaging and challenging discussions on various aspects of differential and phase sensitive detection. My years at IBM Research provided first hand management experience of technology development and commercialization projects, giving me an appreciation of the need to integrate technology and science with product schedules. Omesh Sahni was instrumental in helping me grow as a manager, carefully guiding me through progressively more difficult management situations. At DAT, Rick Morgenstern, Mary Ann Voreck, Peter Patsis, John Burdick, Bill Kazis, and Mukesh Kumar have provided support, companionship and boundless energy as the team worked to develop, refine, and deliver military grade authentication technology to various governmental organizations.

The fine folks at the United States Joint Forces Command, especially the Joint Experimentation Lab headed by Tony Cerri, were helpful, instructive, and patient as our technology was exposed to demanding attacks and attempts to break the hardware-based authentication system that we had ...