Biography
Dr Allan Tomlinson is a senior lecturer with
the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of
London. He was awarded a PhD in 1991 from the University Edinburgh.
His thesis was on "VLSI architectures for cryptography". He then
joined the Institute of Microelectronics at the National University
of Singapore, working on secure NICAM broadcasting. In 1994 he
joined General Instrument in California to work on the Digicipher
II pay-tv system. Before joining the Information Security Group at
Royal Holloway in 2003, he was Principal Engineer at Barco
Communications Systems where he was responsible for the development
of the "Krypton" DVB Video Scrambler.
His current research interests are in distributed systems security,
mobile network security, and trusted computing. In particular,
issues of trust and privacy in these areas.He is the PI for the
Mobile VCE "Instant Knowledge" programme
(DT/F007310/1) investigating privacy in mobile social networks.
