Peter Gutmann

'Peter Gutmann is a professor at University of Auckland in New Zealand, specialising in network security.

He has pubished a number of well-known papers including:

, a classic paper used as a reference by many disk-wiping utilities.
 * Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory

, with the rather memorable "executive executive summary": "The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history."
 * A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection


 * Software Generation of Practically Strong Random numbers

His home page is.