Re: [tcpinc] Andrea Bittau

Kyle Rose <krose@krose.org> Wed, 01 March 2017 02:39 UTC

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From: Kyle Rose <krose@krose.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:39:09 -0500
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Subject: Re: [tcpinc] Andrea Bittau
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This news came as a tremendous shock. My deepest condolences to Andrea's
friends and family. In every interaction I had with him, he was the
personification of class and thoughtfulness. He will be sorely missed.

Kyle



On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 8:42 PM, <dm-list-tcpcrypt@scs.stanford.edu> wrote:

> I'm incredibly sad to report that Andrea Bittau died in a motorcycle
> accident on Saturday.  Andrea was one of the most cheerful and likable
> people I've ever met.  He was also a brilliant engineer, undaunted by
> the most intimidating challenges.  I've never known anyone as good as
> him at diving into a huge messy pile of someone else's code and figuring
> out exactly how to get something done--often through an amazingly clever
> and original simplifying hack.  Andrea was one of those rare security
> researchers who could be equally effective on the attack or the defense
> side.  Though he put the final nail in WEP's coffin and later blew away
> the Oakland 2014 audience with his demonstration of blind
> return-oriented programming, he will be equally remembered for his
> contributions to the TCPINC working group, fine-grained privilege
> separation, and cryptographically-enforced control-flow integrity.
> Andrea will be sorely missed.
>
> David
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