About Cryptosmith
April 20th 2008
This web site belongs to Dr. Rick Smith, whose career has incorporated software development, systems engineering, security, and scholarship. Dr. Smith is currently a faculty member in computer science at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He also does a modest amount of consulting.
Topics covered on this web site are strongly influenced by Dr. Smith’s experiences with large scale information security problems, with the information security challenges of the defense community, and with the materials addressed in his two books: Internet Cryptography (Addison-Wesley, 1997) and Authentication: From Passwords to Public Keys (Addison-Wesley, 2002).
Discussions of “household technology” reflect the author’s experiences with complex technical devices masquerading as products intended for the general public. Now that just about every product contains a computer, any product can produce totally incomprehensible behavior.