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Evi Nemeth

Evi Nemeth is XOR's director of research & development. Nemeth focuses on security issues, network hardware testing and product development. She is currently auditing systems that XOR may offer as products in the future, as well as co-teaching XOR's "Introduction to Cisco Routers in a TCP/IP Environment" and "Topics in UNIX System Administration" classes.

Nemeth is best known for originally identifying inadequacies in and breaking the "Diffie-Hellman trap," the mathematical basis for a large portion of modern network cryptography. An instructor in the computer science department at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Nemeth has also taught at the State University of New York and Dartmouth College.

She holds a B.A. in mathematics from Penn State University, and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. Nemeth has been published over 20 times and has obtained research grants from US West, AT&T and Sun Microsystems. She is also co-author of the best-selling "UNIX System Administration Handbook" (Prentice Hall, 1995).