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{{Short description|Prototype of Secure Sockets Layer}}

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[[File:2004 ACM Software System Award Certificate.jpg|thumb|For inventing secure sockets in 1991 and implementing the first [[secure sockets layer]], named SNP, in 1993.]]

'''Secure Network Programming''' (SNP) is a prototype of the first [[Secure Sockets Layer]], designed and built in 1993 by the Networking Research Laboratory at [[the University of Texas at Austin]], led by [[Simon S. Lam]]. This work was published in the 1994 USENIX Summer Technical Conference.<ref name="SNP-USENIX">{{cite journal |last1=Woo |first1=Thomas |last2=Bindignavle |first2=Raghuram |last3=Su |first3=Shaowen |last4=Lam |first4=Simon |title=SNP: An Interface for Secure Network Programming |journal=Proceedings USENIX Summer Technical Conference |date=June 1994 |url=http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/lam/Vita/Cpapers/WBSL94.pdf |accessdate=21 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/bos94/ |title=1994 USENIX Summer Technical Conference Program, Boston, 6-10 June 1994}}</ref> For this project, the authors won the 2004 [[ACM Software System Award]].

'''Secure Network Programming''' ('''SNP''') is a prototype of the first [[Secure Sockets Layer]], designed and built in 1993 by the Networking Research Laboratory at [[the University of Texas at Austin]], led by [[Simon S. Lam]].

==History==

'''Secure Network Programming''' (SNP) is a prototype of the first [[Secure Sockets Layer]], designed and built in 1993 by the Networking Research Laboratory at [[the University of Texas at Austin]], led by [[Simon S. Lam]]. This work was published in the 1994 USENIX Summer Technical Conference.<ref name="SNP-USENIX">{{cite journal |last1=Woo |first1=Thomas |last2=Bindignavle |first2=Raghuram |last3=Su |first3=Shaowen |last4=Lam |first4=Simon |title=SNP: An Interface for Secure Network Programming |journal=Proceedings USENIX Summer Technical Conference |date=June 1994 |url=http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/lam/Vita/Cpapers/WBSL94.pdf |accessdate=21 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/bos94/ |title=1994 USENIX Summer Technical Conference Program, Boston, 6-10 June 1994}}</ref> For this project, the authors won the 2004 [[ACM Software System Award]].

Simon S. Lam was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame (2023) for "inventing secure sockets in 1991 and implementing the first secure sockets layer, named SNP, in 1993."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cns.utexas.edu/news/accolades/computer-scientist-inducted-internet-hall-fame|title=Simon S. Lam, Regents Chair Emeritus in Computer Science, inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductee/simon-s-lam |title=Simon S. Lam, 2023 Internet Hall of Fame inductee}}</ref>

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SNP pioneered secure sockets for Internet applications in general, independently and concurrently with the design and development of the [[HTTP]] protocol for the [[world-wide web]] which was still in its infancy in 1993. Subsequent secure socket layers (SSL by [[Netscape]] and [[Transport Layer Security|TLS]] by [[IETF]]), implemented several years later using the architecture and key ideas first presented in SNP, enabled secure e-commerce between browsers and servers. Today, many other Internet applications (including [[email]]) use [[HTTPS]], which consists of HTTP running over a secure sockets layer.

[[File:2004 ACM Software System Award Certificate.jpg|thumb|For inventing secure sockets in 1991 and implementing the first secure sockets layer, named SNP, in 1993.]]

== References ==