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I'm a baby-boomer Canadian currently teaching English and IT subjects in China. My academic qualifications are a BA in Psychology and a Certificate in Teaching
I'm a baby-boomer Canadian. I've spent two substantial chunks of my career as an English teacher — 1978-83 and 2002-10 — mainly because that is a good way to support travel. At other times I've worked in computing, mostly as a technical writer but a bit of everything else too.
English as a Second Language, both from Carleton U in Ottawa. I am quite active on Wikitravel, where I'm an admin, and sometimes contribute to other wikis. See
my Wikitravel user page: [http://wikitravel.org/en/User:Pashley].  


I've spent two substantial chunks of my career as a teacher — 1978-83 and 2002-date — mainly because that is a good way to support travel. At other times
My most recent job was as a technical editor in the Computer Science & Engineering department at [[Shanghai Jiaotong University]] (one of China's top technical schools), improving the English in papers that faculty or graduate students were about to submit to journals or conferences. In November 2012 I left that job and returned to Canada to get a medical problem sorted out.
I've worked in computing, mostly as a technical writer but a bit of everything else too.


I wrote most of the documentation for the [[FreeSWAN| FreeS/WAN]] project, a [[Linux]] implementation of the [[IPsec]] encryption protocols. I have permission to re-use that text here [[User_talk:Sandy_Harris/Permission]].
For years I was active on [http://wikitravel.org/en/User:Pashley Wikitravel], but that site was commercially owned and not well maintained. A group of the admins, including me, organised a move to a newly created Wikimedia Foundation site, [http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/User:Pashley Wikivoyage] so now I edit there. An article there that I am proud of is on [http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Retiring_abroad retiring abroad]. I sometimes contribute to other wikis as well.


I'm interested in computer security and cryptography. I think my latest
I am very interested in and involved with computer security and cryptography.
[http://eprint.iacr.org/2008/473 paper], on combining stream ciphers and block ciphers, is fairly interesting.


On holiday Jan 20 to Feb 23. I will have only intermittent net access and probably won't be here much until sometime in March.
I wrote most of the documentation for the [http://www.freeswan.org/intro.html FreeS/WAN project] which is a [[Linux]] implementation of the [[IPsec]] encryption protocols.  I have permission to re-use that text here (see [[User_talk:Sandy_Harris/Permission]]). I wrote a Citizendium article on [[FreeSWAN|FreeS/WAN]] and one on the cypherpunk ideas behind it.


[[Category:CZ Authors|Harris, Sandy]]
My [[Erdös number]] is five via [[Carlisle Adams]], [[Michael Wiener]] and [[Ron Rivest]].
 
At CZ, I am an editor in the Computers Workgroup. For more detailed background, see [[User:Sandy_Harris/Editor]]. For a list of articles where I have been the main or only writer, see [[User:Sandy_Harris/Articles]].
 
 
[[Category:CZ Authors|Harris, Sandy]] [[Category:Inactive CZ Editors|Harris, Sandy]] [[Category:Computers Authors|Harris, Sandy]] [[Category:Inactive Computers Editors|Harris, Sandy]] [[Category:Security Members|Harris, Sandy]]

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I'm a baby-boomer Canadian. I've spent two substantial chunks of my career as an English teacher — 1978-83 and 2002-10 — mainly because that is a good way to support travel. At other times I've worked in computing, mostly as a technical writer but a bit of everything else too.

My most recent job was as a technical editor in the Computer Science & Engineering department at Shanghai Jiaotong University (one of China's top technical schools), improving the English in papers that faculty or graduate students were about to submit to journals or conferences. In November 2012 I left that job and returned to Canada to get a medical problem sorted out.

For years I was active on Wikitravel, but that site was commercially owned and not well maintained. A group of the admins, including me, organised a move to a newly created Wikimedia Foundation site, Wikivoyage so now I edit there. An article there that I am proud of is on retiring abroad. I sometimes contribute to other wikis as well.

I am very interested in and involved with computer security and cryptography.

I wrote most of the documentation for the FreeS/WAN project which is a Linux implementation of the IPsec encryption protocols. I have permission to re-use that text here (see User_talk:Sandy_Harris/Permission). I wrote a Citizendium article on FreeS/WAN and one on the cypherpunk ideas behind it.

My Erdös number is five via Carlisle Adams, Michael Wiener and Ron Rivest.

At CZ, I am an editor in the Computers Workgroup. For more detailed background, see User:Sandy_Harris/Editor. For a list of articles where I have been the main or only writer, see User:Sandy_Harris/Articles.

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