WARNING: Some of the references below will take you back before the beginning of (Internet) time.

You might be interested in reading about my patents (although I'm not sure I've ever read them entirely through):

• "Voice over IP analysis system and method", US Patent 7,616,579, November 10, 2009.

• "Internet authentication with multiple independent certificate authorities", US Patent 7,096,362, August 22, 2006.

Or, perhaps some excellent reports from the National Research Council with which I was fortunate enough to be involved:

• "Cybersecurity of Freight Information Systems", 2003.

• "Cryptography's Role in Securing the Information Society", 1996.

• "Review of the Tax Systems Modernization of the Internal Revenue Service", 1992.

• "Computers At Risk: Safe Computing In The Information Age", 1990.

Or, how about what the Washington Post wrote about one of my business adventures in:

• "Founded, and Lost", by Sarah Shafer (Washington Post, 5/3/99).

Or, you can read some of my comments regarding Java and Security in:

• To Bean, Or Not To Bean regarding the growing use of Java Beans in embedded computer designs (August 2001).

• "Prepare yourself for what's new and different in the forthcoming JDK1.2 release", by John Zukowski (JavaWorld, 11/98).

• JavaSoft Forum 1.2 regarding the need for a version-controlled cache in the JVM (JavaSoft, 2/97).

• Network Monitor Forum '97 regarding Network Security (CCCI Network Monitor Forum '97).

• NOAA 2nd Annual Data Management Working Group Workshop regarding re-use of Java software (NOAA, 11/96).

Finally, here are the results of my research work at Princeton University and the Supercomputing Research Center:

• "Reliable Scheduling in a TMR Database System", with Hector Garcia-Molina, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), Volume 7 Issue 1, Feb 1989.

• "Analysis of a 3D toroidal network for a shared memory architecture", with David Smitley, Proceedings o fthe 1988 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing, 1988.

• "Recovery in a Triple Modular Redundant Database System", with Hector Garcia-Molina, TR-076-87, Princeton University, Dec 1986 and Proceedings of ICDCS, 1987.

• "Applications of Byzantine Agreement in Database Systems", with Hector Garcia-Molina and Susan Davidson, ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), Volume 11 Issue 1, Mar 1986.

• "Reliable Scheduling in a TMR Database System", TR-028-86, Princeton University, Mar 1986.

• "Is Byzantine Agreement Useful in a Distributed Database?", with Hector Garcia-Molina and Susan Davidson, Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), 1984.