Biographical sketch of author

Charles C. Palmer   IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: ccpalmer@us.ibm.com). Dr. Palmer manages the Network Security and Cryptography department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. His teams work in the areas of cryptography research, Internet security technologies, Java™ security, privacy, and the Global Security Analysis Lab (GSAL), which he cofounded in 1995. As part of the GSAL, Dr. Palmer worked with IBM Global Services to start IBM's ethical hacking practice. He frequently speaks on the topics of computer and network security at conferences around the world. He was also an adjunct professor of computer science at Polytechnic University, Hawthorne, New York, from 1993 to 1997. He holds four patents and has several publications from his work at IBM and Polytechnic.