7.8. About the AuthorsJeff Yan is a lecturer in the School of Computing Science, Unversity of Newcastle, in England. He is interested in most aspects of information security, both theoretical and practical. His recent research is largely about systems security, applied crypto, and human aspects of security. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cambridge University.
Alan Blackwell is a lecturer in the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, with qualifications in professional engineering and experimental psychology. His research interests include design practice and human-computer interaction. He is a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.
Ross Anderson leads the security group at the Computer Laboratory, Cambridge University, where he is a professor of security engineering. He was one of the founders of the study of information security economics. A Fellow of the IEEE, he was also one of the pioneers of peer-to-peer systems, of API attacks on cryptographic processors, and of the study of hardware tamper resistance. He was one of the inventors of Serpent, a finalist in the competition to find an Advanced Encryption Standard. He wrote the standard textbook Security EngineeringA Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems. Contact him at Ross.Anderson.
Alasdair Grant is a technical lead on code generation in the compilation tools group at a leading CPU vendor. His research interests include program correctness, static analysis, and binary translation. He has an M.A. in Math and Computer Science from Cambridge University and is a member of the ACM and SIGPLAN.
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