Paul Wouters has been involved with Linux networking and security since he co-founded the Dutch ISP Xtended Internet back in 1996, where he started working with FreeS/WAN IPsec in 1999 and with DNSSEC for the .nl
domain in 2001.
He has been writing since 1997, when his first article about network security was published in Linux Journal. Since then, he has written mostly for the Dutch spin-off of the German c’t magazine, focusing on Linux, networking, and the impact of the digital world on society.
He has presented papers at SANS, OSA, CCC, HAL, BlackHat, and Defcon, and several other smaller conferences.
He started working for Xelerance in 2003, focusing on IPsec, DNSSEC, Radius, and training delivery.
Ken Bantoft started programming in 1988, and successfully avoided it as a full-time job until 2002. Before that, he opted instead to focus on Unix, Networking, and Linux integration.
Beginning at OLS2002, he started working alongside the FreeS/WAN project, integrating various patches into his own fork of its code—Super FreeS/WAN, which is now known as Openswan.
He currently lives in Oakville, ON, Canada, with his wife Van, two cats, and too many computers.
Ken started working for Xelerance in 2003 where he works mostly on IPsec, BGP/OSPF, Asterisk, LDAP, and Radius.