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Steve Crocker is an Internet and computer security expert. Steve Crocker Associates, LLC is a consulting and R&D company specializing in current Internet and electronic commerce technologies. Executive DSL, LLC is an ISP specializing in the integration of Internet-based services for small and medium businesses.
Steve Crocker was one of the founders and chief technology officer of CyberCash, Inc., the leading Internet payments company. In the late 1960¹s and early 1970¹s, Dr. Crocker was part of the team which developed the protocols for the Arpanet and laid the foundation for today¹s Internet. In addition to his technical work on the early protocols, he organized the Network Working Group, which was the forerunner of the modern Internet Engineering Task Force, and he initiated the Request for Comment (RFC) series of notes through which protocol designs are documented and shared.
Dr. Crocker has been a program manager at Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), a senior researcher at USC¹S Information Sciences Institute, founder and director of the Computer Science Laboratory at the Aerospace Corporation and a vice president at Trusted Information Systems before joining CyberCash. Dr. Crocker served as the area director for security in the Internet Engineering Task Force for four years and as a member of the Internet Architecture Board for two years. Dr. Crocker holds a B.A. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA.

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