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About me

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• I'm British, 25 years old, and a PhD student.
• I joined Wikipedia in March 2004.
• While I like to read all sorts of articles on Wikipedia, when editing I tend to do a lot of work on cryptography articles.
• I'm a participant in WikiProject Cryptography; see also the Crypto WikiPortal.
• I'm helping organise a WikiReader Cryptography.
• I'm a big fan of the No personal attacks and Civility policies. I subscribe to the editing style of the Harmonious editing club. I'm a member of the Association of Apathetic Wikipedians .
• I'm an administrator (although I don't spend a great deal of time on admin tasks).
• User:Matt Crypto (bot) is an account I use for automated editing (currently, just cycling an "Article of the Day" box).
• I've contributed to four Featured Articles: Caesar cipher, DES, Enigma (machine), and ROT13.
• So that I can keep track of them, here's the list of non-crypto articles that I've started (mostly stubs, I'm afraid): Africa Inland Mission, Bouncy castle, Bumfights, Chief Mkwawa, Creed & Company, Courtney Pine, Georg Hamel, G20, Hehe, Iringa, Kirkham Priory, Maralal, Matt Redman, Mwanza, Ndorobo, Nicholas Biwott, Norwich Union, Post-it note, Press up, The Matthew's Range, UCCF, Whitecross, Worship leader

Cryptotourism

A side project of mine, not affiliated with Wikipedia, is Cryptotourism, a wiki project to collect information about crypto-history sightseeing, like Bletchley Park or the National Cryptologic Museum.

Diagrams and photographs

My illustrations (and a couple of photos) can be found here:

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Me:

WikiReader Cryptography

Useful boxes

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List of words to slip into casual conversation

• Inculcate
• Recidivist
• Sesquipedalian

Copyrights

I want others to be able to use my contributions with as few restrictions as possible. Hence, all my edits to Wikipedia (to which I have the copyright) are released into the public domain. I've been told that in some jurisdictions the concept of the public domain does not exist; if this is the case, then my contributions are available under a range of licenses detailed below:

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