Greg looks all right in a suit, and has even
been a magazine cover model!
Of course, Greg got older.
This is a 2007 professional photo.
This is the future of the home page that used to be at http://people.qualcomm.com/ggr
Greg looks all right in a suit, and has even
been a magazine cover model!
Of course, Greg got older.
This is a 2007 professional photo.
I'm writing this on the fifth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. The news is full of Still President George W. Bush's self-congratulatory speech about the invasion, and other articles about the cost of the war, and how the majority of Americans now feel that the invasion was a mistake.
The thing that bothers me about almost all of this reporting is the cost accounting. The articles all mention the deaths of US troops (around 4,000) and monetary cost to the US (ranging from 1-3 teradollars). There is no mention of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have directly or indirectly lost their lives, health, or homes because of this invasion, or the economic cost to Iraq's citizens and government (for which I'm unable to find a reasonable estimate).
The reported fact that people are now opposed to the war carries with it the implicit assumption that they were once in favour of it. I certainly wasn't. I believe that the invasion was illegal, immoral and unjustified, and I believed that at the time. I won't lose sight of the fact that the US and its lackeys started a war of aggression without cause, and that the real victims are not the members of the "Coalition of the Willing".
Our newest stream cipher design is called Shannon. Here is source code.
There is a paper circulating that claims Shannon is susceptible to trivial attacks. The attacks only apply when Shannon is used incorrectly, with repeating nonces.
Some interesting cryptographic utilities and papers can be found at QUALCOMM Australia's homepage.
Greg uses cryptography extensively, and has some interesting links. His various PGP public keys are available (if you can't use the newer style Diffie-Hellman/DSS keys you need this instead). Note that Greg uses a multi-level key scheme, with a very secure top level key and less secure keys for personal/USENIX and QUALCOMM related work. Or you can use S/MIME encryption with this CAcert certificate.
He also developed the PGP Moose which allows newsgroup moderators to authenticate postings, and which automatically cancels unauthentic postings. This is still in use but not really supported any more.
Greg was the Program Chair for USENIX's Sixth USENIX Security Symposium focusing on Applications of Cryptography and was invited talks coordinator for the 7th USENIX Security Symposium For the Eigth, he was Works-In-Progress coordinator. For the Ninth, he was Program Co-Chair with Steve Bellovin. Tenth, Invited talks coordinator again. Taking a rest. He worked on a PGP key signing service and electronic voting for USENIX.
Greg was a member of the Board of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, by virtue of having been selected as General Chair of Crypto'03.
Greg developed the SOBER family (including Turing, NLS and Shannon) of stream ciphers for embedded application. This and other software and publications can be found at QUALCOMM Australia's homepage.
Greg is proud to be founding member #1 of LOPSA, the League of Professional System Administrators, for which he also currently on the leadership committee.
Greg for a while became President of CAcert, Inc, a not-for-profit Certificate Authority that issues free certificates based on a web-of-trust identification model.
Greg is the lesser co-author of
BigNum Math
with
Tom St Denis.
Founder and Managing Director of Fawnray Pty Ltd (became Neology Ltd). Founder and Managing Director of Softway Pty Ltd, became AUREMA, sold to Citrix in 2006, long after Greg left. Visiting Scientist at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1991. Manager of the Open Distributed Systems Program at the Australian Computing and Communications Institute. UNIX product engineer for Sterling Software. Joined QUALCOMM in July 1996 as a senior staff engineer/manager, working on cryptography and authentication for CDMA cellular phone systems, and to set up the office of QUALCOMM Australia. Moved to the USA in 2004. Currently vice president in charge of product security. Enjoying work immensely.
Involved with the use and development of the UNIX Operating System since its arrival in Australia in 1974. Founding secretary and past president of AUUG. Founding treasurer of SAGE-AU, the System Administrator's Guild of Australia. Past Vice President of the USENIX Association. Past Member of the Board of Directors of the International Association for Cryptologic Research. President of CAcert, a free certificate authority.
Experienced teacher at university and in private courses, mostly involving cryptography and security, programming languages, operating systems, and implications of software and hardware technology.
Recently, people have been asking me for some of my old publications
(generally not crypto related). Many of them are in archaic formats. When I get
a round tuit, I might put more of them here. For the moment, here is:
If you have comments, please send them to ggr@seer-grog.net
Greg Rose (ggr@seer-grog.net)
