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Consulting, Development Contracts and
Professional Work
LibTomCrypt
Developer Manual, Ottawa, December 2006
- Preparing the LibTomCrypt manual for printing
- Fundraiser
for the LibTom projects (http://libtom.org/pages/ltcbook.html)
- Commissioned cover art for a professional look and feel
- Money raised goes towards future outgoing donations and
stipends
One Laptop
Per Child, Ottawa, (November 2006)
- Wrote the bios-crypt
project for the OLPC project
(http://dev.laptop.org/git.do?p=bios-crypto;a=summary)
- Provides command line and embeddable BIOS tools for
verifying BIOS images prior to flashing
- Helps to prevent viruses from "bricking" the OLPC laptop
ToorCon'8,
San Diego, (September 2006)
- Gave a survey talk on ECC, "M xor HASH(kaG) || kG" is the
new "me mod n". Represent!
- Available here
(http://libtom.org/pages/toorcon8_ecc_tstdenis.pdf)
Syngress Publishing, Cryptography for
Developers, (September 2006)
- Worked with
Syngress to publish a text presenting cryptography to software
developers
- Goal of the text
is to “problem orient” cryptography to make solving security problems
more manageable.
- Ten chapters (400
pages) covering problems from privacy, integrity, authentication and
non-repudiation
- Includes example
C code for various algorithms as well as references to fielded
libraries.
- ISBN: 1597491047
Syngress Publishing, BigNum Math text
(June 2006)
- Worked with
Syngress to publish the LibTomMath textbook
- 300 page text
that documents the construction of a large integer multiple precision
math library.
- Includes pseudo
code and real fielded C source code for each algorithm
- Based on the
LibTomMath math library
- ISBN: 1597491128
Advanced Micro Devices, (January 2006 -
October 2006)
- Senior Software Engineer
- Work on site with IBM to help
profile and engineer IBM products on AMD Opteron Systems
- Work with DB2 Viper at
pre-launch doing TPC-C benchmarking and debugging
- Representative of AMD for IBM in
Canada
- Co-ordinate events such as
training, product roll out and scheduled upgrades
- Responsible to be knowledgeable
about current products and future road maps. To help diagnose faults
and
interpret benchmark results.
ToorCon'7, San Diego, (Sept 2005)
- Was invited to give a talk on
"plugable" libtomcrypt
- Goal of talk was to encourage
third party development with the library
- Gave this talk
(http://libtom.org/pages/toorcon05.pdf)
LibreSoftwareMeeting, Dijon,
France,
(July 2005)
- Was invited to give a talk on
the LibTom set of projects
- Gave this talk
(http://libtom.org/pages/talk_lsm.pdf)
Elliptic Semiconductor, Ottawa, (March 2005 - October 2005)
- Work full-time as a software
developer and cryptographer.
- Responsible for providing
answers to cryptography related questions.
- Responsible for implementing
regression testing and emulation software to use against existing
hardware.
- Have traveled (Vancouver and
Washington state)
Secure Science, Vannes, France
(January 2005 - February 2005)
- Spent a month in France
fine tuning and integrating the cryptographic software into Time
Navigator with the Atempo software team.
- French language skills were
essential.
Secure Science, Ottawa, (December 2004 - February
2005)
- Implemented the cryptographic
layer for Atempos network backup "Time Navigator" suite
- Worked as the lead software
developer in a group of seven.
- Project was accepted as of April
2005
Secure Science, Les Boréales, France
(November 2004)
- Spent a week gathering user
requirements (cryptographic project)
- Formed a design document for a
cryptographic layer for network backup software
Blunk Microsystems - LibTom Consultant
(October 2004)
- Consulted to enhance the build
configurations of LibTomMath and LibTomCrypt
- Built a flexible dependency tree
generator and analyzer for LibTomMath
- Reduced the size of a "RSA"
build of LibTomMath by half
- Updated the documentation for
both projects to better support the new functionality
- Produced LTC v0.99 and LTM v0.32
[with the patchsets] as a final product
- Worked in the limited time frame
of five business days
San Diego chapter of the ACM, ToorCon'6
(September 2004)
- Lectured at the ACM
- Presented a seminar at ToorCon
- Title of talk "Cryptanalysis in Society"
(http://libtom.org/pages/talk.sxi)
- Talk length, 60 minutes
Gracenote, California - LibTomCrypt
Consultant (June 2004)
- Consulted to port Diffie-Hellman
768-bit support from LibTomCrypt to a smaller form factor
- Required to perform custom
changes to code to fit their development platforms
- Required to reduce code size
significantly (4x smaller)
- Produced this finished
product (freely available for all purposes in the public domain)
(http://libtom.org/pages/gracenote.zip)
- Worked in limited time frame of
five business days
- Provided additional support for
an additional week to ensure acceptance
Secure Science Corporation - Software
Developer (March 2004 - Present)
- Consults on various
cryptographic protocols and designs
- Develops in-house prototype
software
- Network with other firms to
secure consulting agreements
- Perform theoretical research in
the field of symmetric cipher and hash design.
NTI Inc. -- Cryptography Consultant
(March 2003 - March 2004)
- Required to write several
cryptographic tools
- Required to provide feedback
about the security of various decisions
- Completed two separate projects.
Cloakware -- Intern Cryptographer (May 2000 - April 2001)
- Responsible for analysis and
design of several cryptographic primitives
- Support libraries and classes
written in Java 2
- Provided regular 15 to 20 min
presentations.
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