Reply #4: here's something on the researcher -- nominted too, always good news [View All]

[nashville_brook]

no matter what the sum.

anyone know anything about his past research? this is from
http://www.avirubin.com/

Dr. Aviel D. Rubin is Professor of Computer Science and Technical
Director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins
University. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Rubin was a research
scientist at AT&T Labs. He is also a co-founder of Independent
Security Evaluators (securityevaluators.com), a security consulting
firm. Rubin is author of several books including Brave New Ballot
(Random House, 2006) Firewalls and Internet Security, second
edition (with Bill Cheswick and Steve Bellovin, Addison Wesley,
2003), White-Hat Security Arsenal (Addison Wesley, 2001), and Web
Security Sourcebook (with Dan Geer and Marcus Ranum, John Wiley &
Sons, 1997). He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on
Software Engineering, Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on
Internet Technology, Associate Editor of IEEE Security & Privacy,
and an Advisory Board member of Springer's Information Security
and Cryptography Book Series. Rubin serves on the DARPA Information
Science and Technology Study Group. In January, 2004 Baltimore
Magazine name Rubin a Baltimorean of the Year for his work in
safeguarding the integrity of our election process, and he is
also the recipient of the 2004 Electronic Frontiers Foundation
Pioneer Award. Rubin has a B.S, ('89), M.S.E ('91), and
Ph.D. ('94) from the University of Michigan.