The company name comes from two hills that are a local landmark near our office. The word Sinodun derives from Celtic for Old Fort.
Dr John A Dickinson
John Dickinson graduated from Nottingham University and obtained his DPhil from Oxford University. He has over 10 years experience working in IT, primarily as a systems administrator and Internet protocol researcher for Nominet UK where he was part of the team that oversaw the operation of the UK’s ccTLD infrastructure. He specialises in DNS and DNSSEC.
John was the first person to write a DNSSEC signer that used keys stored in an HSM (this code now forms part of NLNetLabs LDNS library). He was closely involved in the design and initial development of OpenDNSSEC and also responsible for adding DNSSEC support to libdkim, part of dkim-milter. He was also one of the first to demonstrate how quickly the 2008 Kaminsy attack on DNS could be performed.
Selection of past presentations available here.
Email: jad@sinodun.com
Dr Sara Dickinson
Sara graduated from Cambridge University and obtained her DPhil from Oxford University. She has worked in a number of different industries over the past decade mainly as a software developer.
She worked for several years in telecommunications focusing on GSM system analysis and integrity. For the last four years she has concentrated on object orientated design and development of GUI driven engineering applications.
Sara presented our work on DNSCCM at OARC and RIPE 63 meeting in Vienna.
Email: sara@sinodun.com