About


My name is Tavis Ormandy, I'm an Information Security Engineer at Google. I'm originally from England, but I'm currently living in Switzerland. My main interests are computing related, I participate in several open source projects and enjoy security research. I sometimes post news or announcements to my weblog, but it probably hasn't been updated recently.

Research


This section is a repository for my UNIX security research and vulnerability analysis, including a list of vulnerabilities I've published. Security is one of my major interests, and I enjoy contributing to open source security by performing audits and research.

Resources


I occasionally document software I use regularly or interesting projects I've completed. I've also written and contributed to some free software projects. This section lists some of my activity in this area.

Miscellaneous


This section is for random stuff.

Gallery

Any random photos I've put online are here.

Contact


You can contact me at <taviso (a) cmpxchg8b com>.

My pgp key is below, alternatively you can download it here, or finger me.

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