Fr. M. Blake Greenlee :::
Fr. M. Blake Greenlee
Graduated in 1950
Inducted in 1998
A 1950 graduate of LTHS, the Reverend M. Blake Greenlee is an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Connecticut and an internationally recognized expert in the use of cryptography in banking, commerce and manufacturing. He chairs the national and international working groups developing standards that define the technology to provide confidentiality, integrity and accountability for data communications and the Internet. Banks and brokerage houses in over fifty countries use these standards. His work has been used to secure the electronic transfer of thousands of trillions of dollars and more than a hundred quadrillion in securities without loss or error. As a Citibank Vice President, he had worldwide responsibility for computer and communications security, information security standards, and legislative liaison on privacy and Electronic Funds Transfer. He serves as a consultant to the Department of Defense and in the private sector on cryptography. In 1969, he authored a ten year plan for the Joint Chiefs of Staffs for the coordination of all U.S. offensive and defensive weapons, command, control, communications and intelligence systems, which was approved, signed by President Johnson, and put into use. An author of three books on computer security, he also teaches courses on cryptography and certificate management. A parish priest, he has worked extensively with inner city Hispanic congregations and is on the Evangelism Committee of the Diocese of Connecticut. Outside of his professional accomplishments, Fr. Greenlee plays a hammered dulcimer, holds a black belt in karate and is an inventor with three patents to his name.