Len Sassaman
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Len Sassaman (born 1980) is the current maintainer of the Mixmaster anonymous remailer code and remop of the randseed remailer. He was employed as the security architect and senior systems engineer for Anonymizer. Currently he is a graduate student at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, as part of the COSIC [1] research group, led by Bart Preneel.
Len has written several papers on privacy and anonymity. Among his works listed in the FreeHaven Anonymity Bibliography are Red-Green-Black Mixes and The Pynchon Gate.
Len is a cypherpunk and privacy advocate. He worked for Network Associates on the PGP encryption software, is a member of the Shmoo Group, a contributor to the OpenPGP IETF working group, the GNU Privacy Guard project, and frequently appears at technology conferences like DEF CON. Len is the co-founder of CodeCon along with Bram Cohen, co-author of the Zimmermann-Sassaman key-signing protocol, and was an organizer of the protests following the arrest of Dmitry Sklyarov.
On February 11, 2006, at the fifth CodeCon, Len proposed to returning speaker Meredith L. Patterson during the Q&A after her presentation, and they are now engaged.
