Open Source and Cryptography
Vipul is an ardent supporter of the free software movement and has published a lot of his work under Open Source licenses. He has written several popular extensions to the Perl programming language, that include Crypt::RSA, Crypt::Primes and Net::XWhois. Vipul has a strong interest in cryptography and considers himself a cypherpunk. He implemented the RSA cryptosystem in an export-friendly form factor as Perl code in the shape of a dolphin. More recently, he published a design for an electronic voting system dubbed Athens that uses cryptographic methods to provide proofs of correctness.
In May, 2000, Vipul and Rishab A. Ghosh, published the Orbiten Free Software Survey, which is considered to be the first successful attempt at building a comprehensive empirical model of contribution to Open Source projects. The software and methodologies developed for the survey are now widely used in Open Source research.
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