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I'm a baby-boomer Canadian currently working in China. I've spent two substantial chunks of my career as a teacher — 1978-83 and 2002-10 — 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. My current job is as a technical editor at [[Shanghai Jiao Tong University]], improving the English in papers by Chinese graduate students that are about to be submitted to journals or conferences.  
I'm a baby-boomer Canadian. I've spent two substantial chunks of my career as an English teacher — 1978-83 and 2002-10 — 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 am quite active on Wikitravel, where I'm an admin, and sometimes contribute to other wikis. See [http://wikitravel.org/en/User:Pashley my Wikitravel user page].  
My most recent job was as a technical editor in the Computer Science & Engineering department at [[Shanghai Jiaotong University]] (one of China's top technical schools), improving the English in papers that faculty or graduate students were about to submit to journals or conferences. In November 2012 I left that job and returned to Canada to get a medical problem sorted out.


I am very interested and involved with computer security and cryptography (see Biography below).
For years I was active on [http://wikitravel.org/en/User:Pashley Wikitravel], but that site was commercially owned and not well maintained. A group of the admins, including me, organised a move to a newly created Wikimedia Foundation site, [http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/User:Pashley Wikivoyage] so now I edit there. An article there that I am proud of is on [http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Retiring_abroad retiring abroad]. I sometimes contribute to other wikis as well.


==Biography==
I am very interested in and involved with computer security and cryptography.


'''''Academic credentials:'''''
I wrote most of the documentation for the [http://www.freeswan.org/intro.html 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 [[FreeSWAN|FreeS/WAN]] and one on the cypherpunk ideas behind it.
* 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 a Master Philosophy in computational linguistics at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, but did not complete that degree.


'''''Publications:'''''
My [[Erdös number]] is five via [[Carlisle Adams]], [[Michael Wiener]] and [[Ron Rivest]].
* [http://www.springerlink.com/content/utpvr3g8xtclvn75/ 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. This was a peer-reviewed paper and my co-author was an acknowledged expert in the field.
* [http://eprint.iacr.org/2008/473.pdf Exploring Cipherspace: Combining stream ciphers and block ciphers], Sandy Harris, November 2008. On the e-print website of  the ''International Association for Cryptologic  Research''.
*[http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/081.pdf The Eris hybrid cipher], Sandy Harris, February 2010, On the e-print website of  the ''International Association for Cryptologic  Research''.


'''''Work and other experience:'''''
At CZ, I am an editor in the Computers Workgroup. For more detailed background, see [[User:Sandy_Harris/Editor]]. For a list of articles where I have been the main or only writer, see [[User:Sandy_Harris/Articles]].


* I973 - 1983: Teaching
* 1984 - 2002: computer industry in Canada
* 2002 - 2010: Teaching.
* Currently working as a technical editor in the Computer Science & Engineering Department at Shanghai Jiaotong University in China , improving the English of papers (mainly by PhD candidates) that will be submitted to international journals or conferences. See [http://www.cs.sjtu.edu.cn/people_general_office.action here].
* Wrote most of the documentation for the [http://www.freeswan.org/intro.html 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]]) which I have done by writing the Citizendium article of [[FreeSWAN]].
* My Erdös number is five. See [http://www.oakland.edu/enp/ The Erdös Number Project] for explanation of the Erdös Number Project at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.
* My work at Citizendium: Since joining Citizendium in December 2007,  I have been the main or only writer of about 58 articles in Citizendium related to computers. See [[User:Sandy_Harris/Articles]] for a list of those articles.


I consider myself to be an ''expert practitioner'' in the field of computer security and cryptography.
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I'm a baby-boomer Canadian. I've spent two substantial chunks of my career as an English teacher — 1978-83 and 2002-10 — 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.

My most recent job was as a technical editor in the Computer Science & Engineering department at Shanghai Jiaotong University (one of China's top technical schools), improving the English in papers that faculty or graduate students were about to submit to journals or conferences. In November 2012 I left that job and returned to Canada to get a medical problem sorted out.

For years I was active on Wikitravel, but that site was commercially owned and not well maintained. A group of the admins, including me, organised a move to a newly created Wikimedia Foundation site, Wikivoyage so now I edit there. An article there that I am proud of is on retiring abroad. I sometimes contribute to other wikis as well.

I am very interested in and involved with computer security and cryptography.

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 and one on the cypherpunk ideas behind it.

My Erdös number is five via Carlisle Adams, Michael Wiener and Ron Rivest.

At CZ, I am an editor in the Computers Workgroup. For more detailed background, see User:Sandy_Harris/Editor. For a list of articles where I have been the main or only writer, see User:Sandy_Harris/Articles.

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