Evi Nemeth | |
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| Born | June 7, 1940 |
| Disappeared | June 4, 2013 (aged 72) Tasman Sea |
| Status | Missing for 11 years, 5 months and 11 days |
| Occupation(s) | Author, retired professor |
| Known for | Lead author of "bibles" of system administration |
Evi Nemeth (born June 7, 1940 – missing-at-sea June or July 2013) was an engineer, author, and teacher known for her expertise in computer system administration and networks. She was the lead author of the "bibles" of system administration: UNIX System Administration Handbook (1989, 1995, 2000), Linux Administration Handbook (2002, 2006), and UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (2010, 2017). Evi Nemeth was known in technology circles as the matriarch of system administration.[1][2]
Nemeth was best known in mathematical circles for originally identifying inadequacies in the "Diffie–Hellman problem", the basis for a large portion of modern network cryptography.[3]
- ^ "Evi Nemeth | Telluride Tech Festival". Techfestival.org. Archived from the original on 2011-10-17. Retrieved 2013-07-06.
- ^ "Racing yacht missing: Seven lost in stormy seas – National – NZ Herald News". Nzherald.co.nz. 2013-06-28. Retrieved 2013-07-06.
- ^ (R. Mullin, E. Nemeth and N. Weidenhofer, "Will Public Key Cryptosystems Live up to Their Expectations? HEP Implementation of the Discrete Log Codebreaker" in Proceedings of the International Parallel Processing Conference, pp. 193–196, 1984.)