My primary research interest is public key distribution for the Internet. I passed my qualifying exam on this topic on 24 Jan 1997. My quals proposal is available in PostScript format. You can also read a rough draft of the architecture for my proposed Internet key publication service. I'm presenting a 5-minute abstract of my most recent work at the 1997 Oakland Symposium on Security and Privacy.

The most recent publication from this work is the paper "Attack-resistant trust metrics for public key certification," to appear in the 7th USENIX Security Symposium. A PostScript version of the paper is available from this Website (also in an HTML version).

Up until summer 1996, I was working on static memory management. A demo is available on the Web.

During the summer of 1996, I worked with Matt Blaze on PolicyMaker, and specifically how to adapt it to e-mail applications. An unpublished draft of our paper is available in PostScript format.

My implementation of the key distribution project is going to involve quite a bit of network and crypto programming. I've started on a library of functions that will (hopefully) prove to be useful for this kind of programming. I'm calling this library AST, for Asynchronous Stream Transformation.

I'm in my fifth year as a graduate student in Computer Science at Berkeley. My advisor is Alex Aiken.