Securing Delay-Tolerant Networks with BPSec
by Edward J. Birrane, III, Sarah Heiner, Ken McKeever
About the Authors
Dr Edward J. Birrane III

Dr Birrane is a computer scientist and embedded software engineer who focuses on the adaption of computer networking protocols for use in non-traditional environments. He has supported a variety of embedded software engineering efforts, to include the NASA New Horizons mission to explore the Pluto-Charon system and the NASA Parker Solar Probe mission to observe the outer corona of our sun.
He works with industry, government, and academia on the design and development of protocols to implement the Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) architecture. He co-chairs the DTN working group within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) where he is a coauthor of BPv7 (RFC 9171), BPSec (RFC 9172), and the default security contexts for BPSec (RFC 9173). He is a member of the principal professional staff at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory as the Chief Engineer for Space Constellation Networking. He is also an adjunct professor of computer science at both the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and The Johns Hopkins University.
Sarah Heiner

Sarah Heiner is part of a passionate community of inventors working on a set of emerging networking protocols. She has contributed to the body of DTN work in several areas, with a ...