SETH M. HARDY 1455 COMMONWEALTH AVE. APT 701 BRIGHTON, MA 02135 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PHONE: +1 (617) 650-1452 EMAIL: SHARDY@ACULEI.NET OBJECTIVE Seeking employment at a position that will build on my academic work and experience. EDUCATION Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. Master of Science in Computer Science, expected Fall 2007 Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Highest Distinction, May 2002 Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Highest Distinction, May 2002 Boston Latin School, Boston, MA. WORK EXPERIENCE NOVEMBER 2004 -- PRESENT Imperfect Networks / Spirent Communications Burlington, MA LEAD VULNERABILITY RESEARCHER - Responsible for the research and development of existing and new network-based attacks, and management of the threat development team. Assisted in a number of roles which contributed to the success of the startup company (Imperfect Networks), including on-site sales engineering support in customer security labs; coordinating with representatives from vendors of other vulnerability databases and security products; and performing audits and security testing as part of Spirent's professional services. JANUARY 2001 -- AUGUST 2003 Cryptography and Information Security Research Laboratory Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR - Managed lab resources, including system administration and network security for more than ten Solaris and Linux workstations, two Linux servers, and an OpenBSD firewall. SUMMER 2002 Force Matrix Software Worcester, MA LEAD DEVELOPER - Was responsible for the design and development of proof of concept bioinformatics software written in assembly language to be run on NVIDIA graphics cards. JUNE 2000 -- AUGUST 2001 Institute for Data Communications Systems University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany MAJOR QUALIFYING PROJECT WORK - Was responsible for the design, creation, testing, and documentation of a software package in Java to generate elliptic curves suitable for use in cryptography, as part of the ELIAS elliptic curve cryptography library. OTHER EXPERIENCE APRIL 2001 -- PRESENT aculei animi Worcester, MA SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR - Am responsible for all aspects of administration, support, and security for multiple production level servers (OpenBSD, NetBSD) used to provide more than fourty users with free Internet services (email, web hosting, data storage, messaging, secondary DNS, secondary MX). COMPUTER SKILLS PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: C, Java, Perl, C++, Scheme, Pascal, Prolog, BASIC, Intel x86 ASM, NVIDIA ASM, Cg, Shell Scripting (sh, bash), Maple, SQL. OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows (9x/NT/2000/XP), BSD (Open/Net/Free), Linux, Solaris. HONOR SOCIETIES ETA KAPPA NU - National Computer and Electrical Engineering Honor Society, inducted in 2003 TAU BETA PI - National Engineering Honor Society, inducted in 2001 PI MU EPSILON - National Mathematics Honor Society, inducted in 1999 NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY - Inducted in 1998 UNIVERSITY PAPERS "Parallel Development of Languages and Religion." Sufficiency in Humanities and Arts Project (May 2000) "Elliptical Curve Generation by CM in Java." Major Qualifying Project in Computer Science (December 2000) "Games, Play, and the Student's Dilemma." Interactive Qualifying Project (April 2002) "Combinatorial Structures in Cryptography." Major Qualifying Project in Mathematics (April 2002) CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS "Distributed Cracking of Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems." Rubi-Con 4 (April 2002) "Prowessful Counterassertion, Intercommon Sunshining in Synentognathous Crossbreeds." Rubi-Con 5 (March 2003) "/dev/erandom: The Inner Workings of a Provably Secure PRNG." Toorcon 101 (September 2003) "Computers Without Hardware; Programming Without Coding." Northern Ohio Technical Advancement Conference (April 2004) "Pseudorandom Number Generation, Entropy Harvesting, and Provable Security in Linux." Black Hat Europe (May 2004) "Making Use of the Subliminal Channel in DSA." The Fifth Hope (July 2004) "Subliminal Channels in Digital Signatures." DEF CON 12 (July 2004) "Learning OpenPGP by Example." 21st Chaos Communicaton Congress (December 2004) "Applied Cryptography? Oh, I skimmed through that book once." Shmoocon (February 2005) "Building Communities in Self-Destructive Environments." Northern Ohio Technological Advancement Conference (April 2006) "Breaking Down the Web of Trust." 22nd Chaos Communication Congress (December 2005), HOPE Number 6 (July 2006) "Your Name, Your Shoe Size, Your Identity? What Do We Trust in This Web?" DEF CON 14 (August 2006) "Key and Identity Management With PGP" Toronto Area Security Klatch (February 2007) "Online Communities and the Politics of DDoS" Northern Ohio Technological Advancement Conference (April 2007) "A Crash Course In The Math of Public Key Cryptography" Chaos Communication Camp (August 2007) REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.