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I am a doctoral candidate in the Theory Group of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (aka UMass). My research interests include cryptography (in particular, the design and analysis of key exchange and authentication protocols) and symbolic computation. My thesis advisor is Susan Landau.
In May 1993 I received a B.S. with Distinction from the Cornell University Department of Computer Science, and I had the distinct pleasure of visiting the department for the 1995-96 academic year.
I have a low security PGP public key.
As of September 23, 1996 at about 10:35 AM EST, I looked like this (400x400 JPEG). My hair is usually much shorter than it appears in this photo.
Susan Landau and I are collaborating on an efficient implementation in Maple of the Landau/Miller `85 polynomial-time decision procedure for determining the solvability of a polynomial by radicals.
I am a charter member of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, which sponsors a monthly speaking series at The Harvard Club. Here are Bob Hettinga's directions to the Harvard Club.
I pointed out some weaknesses of authorization schemes based on password encryption with crypt(3) and based on PGP signatures that were proposed for Internet domain contact record changes in the InterNIC Guardian Object Draft v.1.
Last substantive update: November 13, 1996