http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/06/len_sassaman/ By Andrew Orlowski The Register 6th July 2011 Obituary Len Sassaman, a cryptographer and security researcher of high repute, has died aged 31. Sassaman maintained the Mixmaster remailer and he contributed to various other privacy projects, including OpenPGP. He also co-founded the annual CodeCon conference with Bram Cohen. He was security researcher and doctoral student at the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven. Len was a friend and roommate in San Francisco, in the year following the dot.com crash. The Register's West Coast Bureau at the time was wherever I happened to be – Len provided a mascot. It was a dire time for bright programmers. It got even worse after 9/11. Bram had been turned down for a job at Google because he didn't have a degree. Neither did Len. The pair persuaded Jamie Zawinski to open his DNA Lounge club during the day over one weekend, and invited practical demonstrations of working code from interesting people. "Conferences cost a ridiculous amount of money, and hackers are treated like dirt," said Bram. That was the first CodeCon, and it was Len's energy and enthusiasm that pulled it together. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Thu Jul 07 2011 - 00:24:20 PDT
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