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'''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}}{{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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