Evi Nemeth
Evi Nemeth | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 7, 1940 |
| Disappeared | June 4, 2013 (aged 72) Tasman Sea |
| Status | Missing for 12 years and 13 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.
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.