Brian LaMacchia
Brian A. LaMacchia is a computer security specialist.
LaMacchia is best known for his work at the establishing the MIT , the first key centric implementation to see wide-scale use. LaMacchia wrote the first Web interface for a PGP Key Server.
LaMacchia currently works for where he is Director of Security and Cryptography in Microsoft Research; previously he was the Director of Security and Cryptography in the Microsoft Extreme Computing Group. He played a leading role in the design of , the security architecture for and . He designed and led the development team for the security architecture. He was a security architect on . His most-referenced work is the .Net Framework. He designed and led the development team for the security architecture.
He has played a leading role in the design of and standards. In particular he is an author of versions 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0 XMLDsig. He is a contributor to . He is coauthor on OASIS standard WS-SECURITY.
LaMacchia earned , , and degrees from MIT in 1990, 1991, and 1996, respectively.
His primary community activity is involvement with , where he was the treasurer until 2013, and is currently the President.
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