Mr. Massimiliano Pala

Massimiliano Pala was born in Modena (italy) in 1974. He received an M.S. degree in computer engineering at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He started the OpenCA project in 1998 and still continues its development and management. He worked at different PKI-related projects (GUIDeS, Italian Electronic ID-Card, EuroPKI, University PKIs as well as Public Administrations' projects). Currently he is attending PhD course, Department of Automation and Informatics, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy. His research interests are in the study of the impact of new security architectures and protocols (involving the usage of digital certificates and public key cryptography) in Network security and e-Government projects (e.g. Authentication Authorisation and Accounting solutions and electronic documents). He is also working at solving problems tied to the adoption of digital certificates on large scale (mass issuing) as well as the use of new Peer-to-Peer technologies to address efficient data distribution in PKIs.