Damien Miller

This is my infrequently updated homepage. On the other hand, my shiny new weblog may be more up to date.

Damien Miller is 30-something years old male who lives in Melbourne, Australia. I have a fairly broad range of interests:

Simone and Hugo - my wife and son.
Our first home - currently (finally) being renovated.
Learning Japanese language - nihongo o sannen de benkyoshimashita. demo ima isogashi da kara benkyoshimasen :(
Music - I have a pretty eclectic taste in music, liking almost everything except modern "rock" and most pop music. I especially like electronic music (which I used to write), Bach, Hidegard von Bingen and 20th century composers.
Reading - Literature, hard science fiction as well as science, CS and other texts.
Cinema - I try to enjoy lots of cinema, though I rarely at the cinema. My top ten list of films basically consists of works by the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.
Open Source / Free software - I try to contribute to a number of free software projects. OpenSSH has been the most satisfying. I am slowly expanding the scope of my (small to date) contributions to OpenBSD. Most of my output in this area is listed here.

Here is a picture of me. Some more conventional ones may be found in my photos page.

For the interested, here is my amazon.com wishlist. If you like the software, this is how you can express your gratitude :)

Publications

These are my publications, apart from the software projects that I work on. Not many, because I slack too much.

Markus Friedl and Damien Miller, Delayed compression the SSH Transport Layer Protocol, Internet-draft draft-miller-secsh-compression-delayed-00.txt, November 2006
Damien Miller and Peter Valchev, The use of UMAC in the SSH Transport Layer Protocol, Internet-draft draft-miller-secsh-umac-00.txt, June 2007
SSH protocol, tips and tricks tutorial, presented at AUUG 2002
Damien Miller, Secure portability, Proceedings of the Australian Unix Users Group 2005 conference, October 2005
Damien Miller, Security measures in OpenSSH, Proceedings of the AsiaBSDCon 2007, Usenix, March 2007

Sometimes people want to talk to me...