My name is Giuseppe Paternò, but most of people know me as Gippa (my nick), currently employed as Solution Architect and EMEA Security Expert for Red Hat. In my past I worked for Sun Microsystems, Infostrada/Wind Telecomunicazioni and IBM.

At the moment there’s little content in english as this page is quite new. You can know more about my professional carreer using my Linked-in profile. I am fond of security and I’m part of the italian largest security community sikurezza.org, sometimes publishing papers and slides on my website. Unfortunately most of them are in italian, but if you need some advices, feel free to drop me an e-mail. Some publications that are available also in english:

• Exploring Smartcards: an independent look to technologies and market - June 2008. It’s an overview of smartcard market and technologies. This presentation has been written after a personal research on the subject and is meant to be a way to share results and thoughts. You can also download the slides with notes.
• DHCP Option for LDAP Directory Services discovery - September 2006. A proposed Internet Draft to distribute LDAP parameters via DHCP.
• Using PPP-over-Ethernet (PPPoE) in Wireless LANs - first draft in September 2002, was a proposed Internet Draft published by IETF.

I am also fond of general aviation, ham radio and train models.