Peter Gutmann

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'Peter Gutmann is a professor at University of Auckland in New Zealand, specialising in network security.

He has pubished a number of well-known papers including:

  • Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory

[1], a classic paper used as a reference by many disk-wiping utilities.

  • A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

[2], with the rather memorable "executive executive summary": "The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history."

  • Software Generation of Practically Strong Random numbers

[3]

His home page is [1].

  1. {{citation author = Peter Gutmann url = http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html date = 1996 }}
  2. {{citation author = Peter Gutmann title = A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection url = http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html }}
  3. {{citation author = Peter Gutmann title = Software Generation of Practically Strong Random numbers date = 2000 url = http://www.cypherpunks.to/~peter/06_random.pdf }}