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I'm a baby-boomer Canadian currently teaching English and IT subjects in China. My academic qualifications are a BA in Psychology and a Certificate in Teaching
I'm a baby-boomer Canadian currently teaching English and IT subjects in China. My academic qualifications are a BA in Psychology and a Certificate in Teaching
English as a Second Language, both from Carleton U in Ottawa. I am quite active on Wikitravel, where I'm an admin, and sometimes contribute to other wikis. See
English as a Second Language, both from Carleton U in Ottawa. I also did some work toward an M Phil in computational linguistics at U of Birmingham, UK, but did not complete that degree.
 
I am quite active on Wikitravel, where I'm an admin, and sometimes contribute to other wikis. See
my Wikitravel user page: [http://wikitravel.org/en/User:Pashley].  
my Wikitravel user page: [http://wikitravel.org/en/User:Pashley].  


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I wrote most of the documentation for the [[FreeSWAN| FreeS/WAN]] project, a [[Linux]] implementation of the [[IPsec]] encryption protocols. I have permission to re-use that text here [[User_talk:Sandy_Harris/Permission]].
I wrote most of the documentation for the [[FreeSWAN| FreeS/WAN]] project, a [[Linux]] implementation of the [[IPsec]] encryption protocols. I have permission to re-use that text here [[User_talk:Sandy_Harris/Permission]].


I'm interested in computer security and cryptography. I think my latest
I'm interested in computer security and cryptography. I think my latest papers
[http://eprint.iacr.org/2008/473 paper], on combining stream ciphers and block ciphers, is fairly interesting.
([http://eprint.iacr.org/2008/473], [http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/081]) on combining stream ciphers and block ciphers, are fairly interesting.


On holiday Jan 20 to Feb 23. I will have only intermittent net access and probably won't be here much until sometime in March.
On holiday Jan 20 to Feb 23. I will have only intermittent net access and probably won't be here much until sometime in March.


[[Category:CZ Authors|Harris, Sandy]]
[[Category:CZ Authors|Harris, Sandy]]

Revision as of 07:52, 19 February 2010

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I'm a baby-boomer Canadian currently teaching English and IT subjects in China. My academic qualifications are a BA in Psychology and a Certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language, both from Carleton U in Ottawa. I also did some work toward an M Phil in computational linguistics at U of Birmingham, UK, but did not complete that degree.

I am quite active on Wikitravel, where I'm an admin, and sometimes contribute to other wikis. See my Wikitravel user page: [1].

I've spent two substantial chunks of my career as a teacher — 1978-83 and 2002-date — mainly because that is a good way to support travel. At other times I've worked in computing, mostly as a technical writer but a bit of everything else too.

I wrote most of the documentation for the FreeS/WAN project, a Linux implementation of the IPsec encryption protocols. I have permission to re-use that text here User_talk:Sandy_Harris/Permission.

I'm interested in computer security and cryptography. I think my latest papers ([2], [3]) on combining stream ciphers and block ciphers, are fairly interesting.

On holiday Jan 20 to Feb 23. I will have only intermittent net access and probably won't be here much until sometime in March.