User:Sandy Harris/Editor

I am an editor in the Computers Workgroup. My interests are broad, but my specialties are cryptography and network security.

Academic credentials:
 * BA in Psychology from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada in 1969
 * Certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada in 1977
 * Some work toward an M Phil in computational linguistics at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, but did not complete that degree.

Publications:
 * Key-Dependent S-Box Manipulations, Sandy Harris and Carlisle Adams, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1999, Volume 1556/1999, 631-632, DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48892-8_2.
 * Exploring Cipherspace: Combining stream ciphers and block ciphers, Sandy Harris, November 2008. On the e-print website of the International Association for Cryptologic  Research.
 * The Eris hybrid cipher, Sandy Harris, February 2010, On the e-print website of the International Association for Cryptologic  Research.

Work and other experience:


 * I973 - 1983: Teaching English in Canada, Iran, Singapore & Saudi Arabia
 * 1984 - 2002: Computer industry in Canada,mainly technical writing
 * 2002 - 2010: Teaching English & computer subjects in China
 * 2010- date: Technical editor in the Computer Science & Engineering Department at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. My main work is editing papers that faculty of graduate students will be submit to international journals or conferences.


 * I wrote most of the documentation for the FreeS/WAN project which is a Linux implementation of the IPsec encryption protocols. I have permission to re-use that text here (see User_talk:Sandy_Harris/Permission). I wrote a Citizendium article on FreeS/WAN.
 * My Erdös number is five.
 * Since joining Citizendium in December 2007, I have been the main or only writer of many articles. See User:Sandy_Harris/Articles for a list of those articles.