Confessions of a Recovering Preppie : A Memoir

Michael de Mare (rhymes with star) was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1969. His early instruction took place at prep schools in New Jersey, until he was 14 years old, when he began attending public school after moving to his grandmother's dairy farm in rural upstate New York in 1984. His undergraduate and postgraduate training well prepared him for a career in cryptology. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Clarkson University, in Computer Science, and a Master of Science from State University of New York Institute of Technology, in Computer Science. In terms of his professional experience, he has worked in systems analysis and software engineering at several firms: Giordano Automation, Ikos Systems, Technoproductions, and LSI Logic -- winning an Engineering Excellence Award at LSI Logic. He is well-known for his work in cryptography, and is credited with several publications, including Efficient Broadcast Timestamping, One-Way Accumulators: A Decentralized Approach to Digital Signatures, Secure Set Membership Using 3SAT, and his master's thesis, An Analysis of Certain Cryptosystems and Related Mathematics. Currently unmarried, he is a doctoral candidate in Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology.Mare, Michael de is the author of 'Confessions of a Recovering Preppie : A Memoir', published 2007 under ISBN 9781419665080 and ISBN 1419665081.