Biographical sketches of authors
José L. Abad Peiro IBM Research
Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse
4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland (electronic mail:
jla@zurich.ibm.com). Mr. Abad Peiro is a member of the network
security research group at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. He
received an M.S. in computer science from the Universidad
Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, and finished the last year of
telecommunications engineering in the École Nationale
Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne,
France. Prior to joining IBM, he was a network manager in the
communications division of the European Space Agency in Darmstadt,
Germany. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science from the Catholic
University of Louvain. Mr. Abad Peiro is a member of the ACM.
N. Asokan IBM Research Division,
Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse
4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland (electronic mail:
aso@zurich.ibm.com). Mr. Asokan has been a member of the network security research group at the IBM Zurich Laboratory since 1995. His
research interests include network security, electronic commerce, and
mobile computing. He received his B.Tech. in computer science and
engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, an M.S.
in computer science from Syracuse University, and is a candidate for a
Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Waterloo. From 1990 to
1995, he was a software systems specialist at the University of
Waterloo, working primarily on network security issues. Mr. Asokan is a
member of the ACM.
Michael Steiner IBM Research Division,
Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse
4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland (electronic mail:
sti@zurich.ibm.com). Mr. Steiner is a research staff member of
the network security research group at the IBM Zurich Research
Laboratory, where he works on security in network management and
electronic commerce. His interests include secure and reliable systems
as well as cryptography. He received a Diploma in computer science from
the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). Mr. Steiner is a
member of the ACM.
Michael Waidner IBM Research Division,
Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse
4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland (electronic mail:
wmi@zurich.ibm.com). Dr. Waidner is the manager of the network
security group at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. His research
interests include cryptography, security, and all aspects of
dependability in distributed systems. He has coauthored numerous
publications in these fields. Dr. Waidner received his diploma and
doctorate in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe,
Germany. He is a member of the ACM, GI, IACR, and SIAM.
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