{"code":"THN7WH","name":"Rick van Rein","biography":"Rick van Rein is a self-employed cryptographer at OpenFortress, mostly active in open source and open protocols.  His aim is to make security and privacy free and available to all.  That is free as in free beer, but also free as in free speech, not subjected to commercial interests.\r\n\r\nRick holds MSc and PhD degrees in computer science with emphasis on electrical engineering and mathematics.  Rick originally started his education at the most pragmatic LTS level electrical engineering, and advanced via MTS electronics and HTS-P technical computer science to university study in computer science.  The combination of pragmatics with theory are markers of Rick's work.","submissions":["FYX8FV","UHHGZT"],"avatar_url":"https://program.why2025.org/media/avatars/fotorick-hoofd_eJorsbq.jpg","answers":[]}