Needham, Roger Michael

Needham, Roger Michael
▪ 2004

      British engineer and computer scientist (b. Feb. 9, 1935, Sheffield, Eng.—d. Feb. 28, 2003, Cambridge, Eng.), devised a secure way of protecting computer password files that became the basis for all systems currently used. Needham began working as a research assistant in the computer laboratory of the University of Cambridge in 1963, after having earned a Ph.D. there. In 1967, while helping to develop a time-sharing system, whereby many users can access a single computer, he developed the one-way password encryption technique—a user's access password is encrypted irreversibly during setup and stored only in that form; when someone else subsequently tries to log on, the presented password is likewise encrypted and compared against the stored version. In 1978 he and Michael Schroeder produced the Needham-Schroeder protocol for authentication of computer users through passwords. Needham succeeded Maurice Wilkes as head of Cambridge's computer laboratory in 1980 and became professor of computer systems in 1981. Upon his retirement from the computer laboratory in 1995, he set up the Microsoft Research Laboratory, the first overseas research centre established by software giant Microsoft Corp. Needham was made CBE in 2001.

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