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Short Biography:

Germano Caronni (IEEE/ACM/ISOC) received his M. Sc. in CS in 1993, and a Ph.D on QoS based Dynamic Security in 1999, both from ETH Zürich. He was one of the first to invent a process to watermark images, participated in the IETF (IPSEC), led the independent implementation effort for SKIP (secure TCP/IP), and its integration into an adaptive firewall. In 1997, he won the RC5/48 challenge of RSA DSI. Since 1997, Mr. Caronni is with Sun Microsystems, where he has introduced a novel solution to secure multicasting, worked on authentication frameworks, participated in the design of an overall security architecture for Suns' products, and co-invented the concept of `Public Utility Computing'. He is currently a member of the Security Research Group in the Sun Laboratories, and working in the realm of rights management, secure networking and secure storage.


Publications:

This section contains almost everything I have published or co-authored since 1986 -- as long as it is computer-related. If something is missing, it is either fairly new, and these pages have not yet been updated, or I have utterly and completely forgotten about it. Please remind me.

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Papers:

These are unpublished work-related writings of mine. They are here either because they have not yet made it into a publication, or because I do not think they are publishable. For whatever reason.

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Patents:

Yes, I have done several patents. While I understand that there are issues with patents (especially with those covering algorithm coding as related to software, and genetic coding as related to biological entities), there are worse things. Did you ever consider the fact that the body of public knowledge might be smaller without patents? Just look at the recent efforts of the Media industry. Well, whatever. Go to the EFF, and build yourself an opinion. But don't forget to check out the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, or their archives on DVDs once you are there.

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Projects:

During the years, I have participated in a few projects on a full-time basis, and even created one or two. The projects listed here are definitively work-related. Some are a thing of the past, and some are active. For more projects, check out the 'fun' pages. (but don't expect to find anything there for a while...)

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Presentations:

If you want to check out a talk of mine, or look at a course or lecture, that would be the right place. Things are archived in roughly chronological order, albeit the archive definitively is incomplete.

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Press:

A few times, the press chose to talk about something I was involved with, or a project I was involved with released some press statements. This would be their place to rest in peace...

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    Germano Caronni          <gec.acm.org>       Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Security Research Group     pgp:  0x01175321     901 San Antonio Rd. MTV29-112
 <caronni.eng.sun.com>      96677999E2989912          Palo Alto, CA 94303
Tel ++1 (650) 352-4726      1994699E99E99968       United States of America