Ivan Krstić · krstic @ at @ solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu

» I work on core security for a California fruit vendor. In a previous life, I took a leave of absence from the academia to work as director of security architecture at One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit trying to save the world by fixing education. This means I was paid to be paranoid, which I imagine some psychiatrists might find funny. (There exists a slightly more detailed biography for the stalkers). I write stuff in a notebook, which is like a blog, but doesn't sound as idiotic.

» I enjoy breaking computers. I enjoy making computers hard to break even more. Unfortunately, most people are really bad at the latter. At OLPC, I had put a lot of work into designing Bitfrost (technical details), which is a system for securing computers that's trying to be both hard to break and easy to use. If this proves successful, a future version will make ice cream fall from the sky.

» People apparently like to hear me blab. You can look at a list of past and upcoming talks, or join the fan club by watching a recent blab I gave at Google about my work and the awesome technology in the OLPC laptops.

» I'm a big believer in open source, which is an ancient African phrase meaning "no, I will not fix your Windows computer for you." I've been using Linux since before it was cool, and recently co-wrote the official book about my distribution of choice. Before Ubuntu, I was a loyal Debian user, despite occasionally venturing to the dark side. I make servers do neat tricks, and like to do so with Python.

» Outside of security, I specialize in systems architecture and scalability. If you use the web, you've likely used my work. I'm also interested in road cycling, hiking, world history, and abusing mathematics.