From: "Cheryl Madson (cmadson)" <cmadson@cisco.com>
To: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
Thread-Topic: [IPsec] Hugh Daniel has passed away
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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 00:27:24 +0000
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Cc: "Cheryl Madson \(cmadson\)" <cmadson@cisco.com>,
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Subject: Re: [IPsec] Hugh Daniel has passed away
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Wow... I'm shocked.=20

Hugh had a big impact on the early IPsec standards. We didn't always agree,=
 to say the least,=20
but he did help to make IPsec a better protocol. He also contributed to sev=
eral other WGs.=20
=20
You couldn't help but appreciate how he stuck to his principles, even when =
it was very=20
inconvenient for him.=20

He tried hard to contribute towards organizations that could make a differe=
nce. I know he worked=20
with EFF, and I recall him talking about working with human rights groups i=
n Guatemala.=20

I hadn't heard from him in years, but I did run into him a year ago at a fo=
lk festival. He sounded
pretty much the same old Hugh at that time. =20


RIP, Hugh.

thx - C


On Jun 4, 2013, at 3:56 PM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> wrote:

> This is off-topic, but important historically. Hugh participated in the I=
ETF's early standardization of IPsec both as an active implementer and as a=
n agitator.
>=20
> Begin forwarded message:
>=20
>> From: Paul Wouters <paul@cypherpunks.ca>
>> Subject: Hugh Daniel has passed away
>> Date: June 4, 2013 3:32:56 PM PDT
>> To: ietf@ietf.org
>>=20
>>=20
>> Hugh Daniel passed away on June 3rd after what appears to have been a he=
art 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 Danie=
l
>> 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-aloholi=
c
>> 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
>=20
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