Dan Harkins is a Fellow at Hewlett Packard Enterprise performing research and development in the field of applied cryptography. He specializes in designing secure protocols for network access and device communication. His current focus of research is in robust and misuse resistant cryptography and in ways to provision trust in per-user or per-device credentials that scale from the home network to the enterprise. He invented the protocol that ended up becoming the Device Provisioning Protocol in the Wi-Fi Alliance. He also invented the secure, password-based key agreement protocol that is the base of WPA3. He is the author of numerous RFCs in the field of authentication and secure key establishment and is an active participant in IETF, IEEE, and Wi-Fi Alliance.