--- title: "The Legend of Kipp Hickman" url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-legend-of-kipp-hickman-64qbgabsd source_url: https://www.feistyduck.com/newsletter/issue_131_the_legend_of_kipp_hickman type: article source: "Feisty Duck" published: 2025-11-26T11:41:09.746Z updated: 2025-11-26T11:41:29.918Z tags: ["security", "cryptography"] reading_time: 4 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Legend of Kipp Hickman **[Feisty Duck](https://daily.dev/sources/feistyduck)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Kipp Hickman designed and implemented SSL v2 in just three months in late 1994, enabling Netscape Navigator to support encrypted web communication. His pragmatic approach prioritized preventing passive attacks and included man-in-the-middle protection as an afterthought. This foundational work, released with Navigator 1.1 in March 1995, evolved into SSL v3 and eventually became the TLS protocol that secures modern web traffic. Despite his pivotal contribution to web security and encryption, Hickman remains underrecognized in cryptography history. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [jwz: Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today](https://daily.dev/posts/jwz-netscape-navigator-2-0-was-released-30-years-ago-today-zuzpc42p8) · Lobsters · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Turing Award Winner: NSA, Public Key Cryptography, Crypto Wars](https://daily.dev/posts/turing-award-winner-nsa-public-key-cryptography-crypto-wars-qoa1esgy3) · The Developing Dev · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [The History of the Web](https://daily.dev/posts/the-history-of-the-web-jae24uva5) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#cryptography](https://daily.dev/tags/cryptography) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-legend-of-kipp-hickman-64qbgabsd)