Ottawa Canada Linux Users Group

Serving the Linux community in the Ottawa area for 13 years.

Michael Richardson

Michael Richardson has been involved with network security systems since 1988. Michael was a founding employee at Milkyway Networks in 1994, and Solidum Systems Corporation in 1998. While at Milkyway Networks, Michael was responsible for developing the VPN components of the BlackHole firewall, the policy engine, and all kernel components. Solidum designed and sold hardware - - IPsec being an important target. Michael is a system software designer and protocol designer. Michael is involved on a daily basis with at the IETF. He is an author on RFC3586, RFC4025 and RFC4332.

Michael was has architected a number of IPsec systems, including closed source systems at SSH, work on KAME code on BSD, and work on the Linux FreeS/WAN project.

Michael is now a principle at Xelerance Corporation, the open source security specialists, current maintainers of the Openswan IPsec stack.

Michael received a B.Sc. Physics from Carleton University.

Talks given:

2008.05.06 May Meeting: Neuros OSD and Canadian Copyright Update

2007.10.02 October Meeting: Backups with amanda 2.5.xx

2008.11.04 November Meeting: etckeeper

2010.05.06 May Meeting: Understanding Net Neutrality, and "Throttling"

2007.04.26 April Tutorial: A gentle introduction to Inkscape for geeks

2007.05.01 May Meeting: How I taught my laptop to know where it is

2006.10.03 October Meeting: using SSH public key authentication