Introduction to

Paul Elliott

Hello, I am Paul Elliott. I am a software developer with an interest in C++, LINUX and a variety of other software oriented topics.
I have written a tabbed X11 text file lister using Gtkmm, gnu C++, X11 and Linux.

I have given a number of presentations to Austin Linux Group:

I have written a simple OS/2 text file lister using IBM's Open Class library.

I have ported a TCP/IP Socket++ Library to OS/2.

I have also written a OS/2 device driver for a simple hardware Random Number Generator.

If you want, you can read my resume.

Here is a poem for you to read.

Freedom in cyberspace.

I believe in the development of culture via cyberspace. To this end, freedom of communication is necessary. I am a member of Electronic Frontiers Houston, a Houston organization dedicated to freedom in cyberspace.

Support Free Speech in cyberspace.

Free Speech Online Blue Ribbon Campaign
Join the Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign!

Cryptography as a tool of freedom.

Golden Key
Protect Privacy Online: Join the Golden Key Campaign!

Privacy is needed to implement freedom in cyberspace. Without it, cyberspace is a glass-walled prison. It is more difficult to coerce people if you do not know what they are up to! This is why totalitarian elements of government are deathly afraid of cryptography. The development of commonly available easy to use cryptography represents a massive transfer of power from government to ordinary people. I have written a rant on why cryptography should not be regulated. Philip Zimmermann's cryptography program PGP is the beginning of such software. I have written a tutorial on how to use PGP.

In 1994, I wrote an essay on the clipper chip for the HAL PC users Journal. This essay is now dated, and some statements are no longer true.

Cult of Free Inquiry

I am also trying to establish the Cult of Free Inquiry

Philosophy

I am also interested in philosophy. My favorite philosopher is David Hume. His Dialogs Concerning Natural Religion is a masterpiece of philosophical literature.

I have written an essay on how Bertrand Russell discovered the Russell Paradox.

Some of my family is also on the WEB.

My brother, Stephen Elliott has a WEB page too.

Can You Identify this Quercus?

This oak was planted by a squirrel. I want to get it identified. It will be a massive oak someday.