User:Sandy Harris

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I'm a baby-boomer Canadian currently working 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 2002-10 — 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 by Chinese graduate students that are about to be submitted to journals or conferences.

I'm interested in computer security and cryptography. I think my paper on combining stream ciphers and block ciphers is fairly interesting.

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

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 keep a list of User:Sandy_Harris/Articles in my main area of interest.