Invitation to ETI: Marcus Leech

Who We Are: Marcus Leech

Mr. Marcus Leech was born in sunny southern England in 1963, and emigrated to Canada in 1967. He got his first job in computing in 1979. Marcus specialized in computer security and cryptography in the early 1990s. He is past area director for security for the Internet Engineering Task Force, has chaired two security-related working groups in the IETF, and acts an advisor to the IEEE link-layer security task group. He has several patents in the field of cryptography and computer security. He spends some of his spare time conducting research in radio astronomy and SETI, and from time to time operates a SETI observing station. He makes his home in the beautiful Rideau valley, near Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He shares his life with a wife, three children, and several sheep.

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