Len Sassaman

Len Sassaman

Infobox Person


image_size = 150px
name = Len Sassaman
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birth_date = 1980
residence = flagicon|Belgium Leuven
known_for = Mixmaster
occupation = Researcher, COSIC
website = http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~lsassama/

Len Sassaman (born 1980) advocate for privacy and current maintainer of the Mixmaster anonymous remailer code and remop of the "randseed" remailer.

He was employed as the security architect and senior systems engineer for Anonymizer. Currently he is a PhD candidate at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, as a researcher with the COSIC research group, led by Bart Preneel. David Chaum and Bart Preneel are his advisors.

Mr. Sassaman is considered [by whom? cite source if it is to be 'widely considered'] a cypherpunk and privacy advocate. He worked for Network Associates on the PGP encryption software, is a member of the Shmoo Group, a contributor to the OpenPGP IETF working group, the GNU Privacy Guard project, and frequently appears at technology conferences like DEF CON. Sassaman is the co-founder of CodeCon along with Bram Cohen, co-author of the Zimmermann-Sassaman key-signing protocol, and was an organizer of the protests following the arrest of Dmitry Sklyarov.

On February 11, 2006, at the fifth CodeCon, Sassaman proposed to returning speaker and noted computer scientist Meredith L. Patterson during the Q&A after her presentation, and they are now married [ [http://ioerror.livejournal.com/420500.html ioerror: A selection of new sets ] ] . The couple has worked together on several research collaborations, including a critique of privacy flaws in the OLPC Bitfrost security platform [ [http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19826596.100-laptops-could-betray-users-in-the-developing-world.html Laptops could Betray Users in the Developing World] ] .

Meredith's current startup, Osogato, aims to commercialize Meredith's Support Vector Machine-based "query by example" research. Len and Meredith announced Osogato's first product, a downloadable music recommendation tool, at SuperHappyDevHouse 21 in San Francisco.

See also

* Data privacy
* Information privacy
* Information security

References

External links

* [https://securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be/~lsassama/ Sassaman's home page]


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