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Glad you made it.

You've landed at the Web-amour-propre of security and privacy researcher, Justin Troutman -- me. If you'd like to know more about me, what I'm up to, and where you can find me, feel free to use the menu to the left.

At the present, I'm co-working (with Professor Vincent Rijmen) on a cryptographic project dubbed, "Mackerel: A Progressive School of Cryptographic Thought." It's still constantly evolving, but, in a nutshell, Mackerel reduces all real-world cryptographic problems to deficiencies in the interfaces between humans and technology, within the context of security and privacy; when information leaks, it's always due to loose interfacing created by gaps in understanding between distinct social groups (e.g., cryptographers, developers, consumers), as well as the misapplication of one technology over another medium (e.g., cryptography to communication). We're all a part of the security and privacy process, yet we all speak different dialects; it's longer overdue that we entertain the idea of translating for each other.