QUERY: who is this man?

[ddt@lsd.com (Dave Del Torto)]

>ENCRYPTION: The Clinton administration's encryption
>  plans are having licensing troubles: The US Commerce
>  Department's NIST is having licensing discussions
>  with inventors over its Digital Signature Standard,
>  and an MIT scientist claims that the Clipper chip
>  infringes on his patents. <WSJ 5/31 p.B6>

Can someone please post the id of this "MIT Scientist?"

Also, any comments (however brief) on the NIST discussions?