I’ve put a new track up online.  Warning: this one is pretty ambient, and doesn’t get all that interesting until about the halfway point.  And yes, I know that the Juno patch I used sounds very 80s.  That was intentional, I’m trying to bounce the slightly syrupy classic 80s sound against the dub step inspired beat stutters and shuffles.

I’m in the process of developing a new set for live performance. This track, like several of my other recent tracks. is performed live in my studio as part of a practice set.

Genre: Zurich
Instrumentation: Samples, Juno 106
BPM: 114

Big up to Freesound and sample authors beatgorilla, ronlybonly, keinzweiter, acclivity, djgriffin, nathanshadow, and room.

Click to Download Smoking
 

Smoking by Cryptocrat is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Switzerland License.
Based on a work at cryptocracy.net.

I am excited to continue to serve on the program committee of the Privacy Enhancing Technology Symposium (PETS) 2010

Accountable Privacy Supporting Services Jan Camenisch, Thomas Gross,  Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin To appear in the next issue of the Springer Journal of Identity in the Information Society (IDIS)

Whew, Just got back from EuroDIG 2009 where I was a speaker in the Personal and Professional Privacy session.  I had a tremendously good time.  The session was largely organized as a round table discussion with 6 speakers, a moderator, and a large and active audience.  The other speakers were great, as was the discussion from the audience.  Naturally we ran out of time, and were only able to include a small portion of what was discussed in our summary report back to the main EuroDIG body.  Because of the structure of the EuroDIG site I cannot link to the session outcome, so I will include it here below the jump. Oh, and a lesson learned: have excellent people take notes during workshops and then post the outcome immediately.  I think we don’t do this enough in the academic community.

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Proximity-based Access Control for Implantable Medical Devices Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Claude Castelluccia, Thomas S. Heydt- Benjamin and Srdjan Capkun 16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2009