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Rick Troth has extensive experience in security, cryptography, networking, virtualization, and system administration.
He understands critical infrastructure technology from the bottom up and so he is someone you go to when an abstraction is unclear and you need to understand details at a deeper level.
He regularly uses z/VM and KVM for hosting virtual workloads.

He knows DNS, IPv6, HTTP, and HTML.
His desktop environment alternates between Linux and FreeBSD.
He uses PGP (GPG), PKI (TLS/SSL), and SSH on a daily basis.
He builds inter-language programming interfaces just for fun.

Rick earned his CISSP in 2022, passing the exam on first try.

He has been splicing wires since the age of five, and has been interconnecting unlike systems his whole career.
Rick can make your systems work together rater than against each other.

PGP key fingerprint is 90E0 145E D15F 3EF2 008C 3883 96AF 6544 EDF1 38D9.

It's all about trust!