User:Sandy Harris

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I'm a baby-boomer Canadian. I've spent two substantial chunks of my career as an English teacher — 1978-83 and 2002-10 — mainly because that is a good way to support travel. At other times I've worked in computing, mostly as a technical writer but a bit of everything else too. My current job is as a technical editor in the Computer Science & Engineering department at Shanghai Jiaotong University, improving the English in papers that faculty or graduate students are about to submit to journals or conferences.

For years I was active on Wikitravel, but that site was commercially owned and not well maintained. A group of the admins, including me, organised a move to a newly created Wikimedia Foundation site, Wikivoyage so now I edit there. An article there that I am proud of is on retiring abroad. I sometimes contribute to other wikis as well.

I am very interested in and involved with computer security and cryptography.

I wrote most of the documentation for the FreeS/WAN project which is a Linux implementation of the IPsec encryption protocols. I have permission to re-use that text here (see User_talk:Sandy_Harris/Permission). I wrote a Citizendium article on FreeS/WAN and one on the cypherpunk ideas behind it.

My Erdös number is five via Carlisle Adams, Michael Wiener and Ron Rivest.

At CZ, I am an editor in the Computers Workgroup. For more detailed background, see User:Sandy_Harris/Editor. For a list of articles where I have been the main or only writer, see User:Sandy_Harris/Articles.