Jon Anderson's Page

Contact Information:

• andersoj@enc.edu -- Still my primary and preferred email address. This one will not go away for a long, long time, it seems. Mail from this address is redirected to wherever appropriate.
• andersoj@rcn.com -- Deprecated, consider this address temporary please, use andersoj@enc.edu instead.
• andersoj@mitre.org -- Work-related email only, please.
• My work number is 781.271.2740
• My resume will be available here:
• Everything else you can request via andersoj@enc.edu

Crypto

What is this PGP stuff, anyway?

• www.pgpi.org or www.pgp.com -- Pretty Good Privacy homepage
• Better yet, go open source: http://www.gnupg.org/ -- GnuPG requires a little more determination and skill. The joy is in the journey.
• Read Zimmerman's guide to PGP... rationale and history of Pretty Good Privacy, and can be found in pdf. Get Acrobat to read this, it's well worth it.
• Alice and Bob, the legacy.

Assortment of other links Jon pays some kind of attention to...

• slashdot
• Google
• Distributed.net (my stats page for rc5-64)
• crytome
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• OpenDVD
• Eastern Nazarene College, and Nease Library
• Scramdisk -- freeware disk encryption software
• Linux Weekly News
• MITRE Public site
• New England Complex Systems Institute
• MITRE's Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures DB
• ESR's Jargon File

Reading List

• The Code Book, Simon Singh (sp?) -- finished
• Introduction to the Theory of Computation -- in progress (probably for the next three months.)
• Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson [homepage]-- complete
• Hyperion, Dan Simmons, sci-fi, recommended -- complete
• The New New Thing, Michael Lewis-- Ooof. Well, I read it. Asi, asi.
• You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train, Howard Zinn-- in progress
• Words and Rules, Steven Pinker-- complete
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace-- complete
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace-- complete
• Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace-- in the queue
• Gold Bug Variations, Richard Powers-- complete, and zwounds was that a good read. Head's still spinning.
• Galatea 2.0, Richard Powers-- in progress
• Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Murikami-- waiting
• Ahab's Wife, Sena Jeter Nuslund-- waiting
• The Feeling of What Happens, Antonio Damasio-- complete, and worth the read