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'''Peter Claus Gutmann''' is a [[computer science|computer scientist]] in the Department of Computer Science at the [[University of Auckland]], [[Auckland]], [[New Zealand]]. He has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Auckland. His Ph.D. thesis and a book based on the thesis were about a cryptographic security architecture. He is interested in [[computer security]] issues, including [[Computer security model|security architecture]], security [[usability]] (or more usually the lack thereof), and [[Hardware Security Module|hardware security]]; he has discovered several flaws in publicly released [[cryptosystem]]s and [[protocol (cryptography)|protocol]]s. He is the developer of the [[cryptlib]] [[open source]] software security library and contributed to [[Pretty Good Privacy|PGP]] version 2. In 1994 he developed the [[Secure FileSystem]] (SFS). He is also known for his analysis of data deletion on electronic memory media, [[magnetic]] and otherwise, and devised the [[Gutmann method]] for erasing data from a [[hard drive]] more or less securely. Having lived in New Zealand for some time, he has written on such subjects as [[weta]]s, which are peculiar &lt;!-- ie, found nowhere else --&gt;to New Zealand, and the [[1998 Auckland power crisis|Auckland power crisis of 1998]], during which the electrical power system failed completely in the central city for five weeks. See his ''Auckland: Your Y2K beta test site'' on [https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/ Gutmann's Homepage]. He has also written on his career as an "arms courier" for New Zealand, detailing the difficulties faced in complying with customs control regulations with respect to cryptographic products, which were once classed as "munitions" by various jurisdictions including the United States.

== Criticism of Windows Vista ==

His [[white paper]] "''Cost Analysis of [[Windows Vista]] Content Protection''", in which he described the content protection specification as "[[the longest suicide note in history]]", generated considerable public interest since it was first posted in 2006. He discussed this with [[Steve Gibson (computer programmer)|Steve Gibson]] in episode #74 of the [[Security Now!]] podcast on 2007-01-11.

== See also ==
* [[Criticism of Windows Vista]]
* [[Data privacy]]
* [[Gutmann method]]
* [[Information privacy]]
* [[Plaintext]]

== Bibliography ==
* Gutmann, Peter (2003). ''Cryptographic Security Architecture: Design and Verification'', 
* Gutmann, Peter (2000). ''[http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2310 The Design and Verification of a Cryptographic Security Architecture]'', PhD thesis

==Source==

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