"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger in the long run is no safer than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

--Helen Keller

You have found the web page of Tal Garfinkel. I am currently a Ph.D. student in the computer science department at Stanford University. The central focus of my work is computer security. My research interests span a wide range of areas in systems including operating systems, computer architecture, networking, distributed systems, applications of cryptography and programming languages.

Some of my publications and projects I have worked on can be found here.

I live in Palo Alto, lucky me.

Salon, news and popular culture fluff for the young liberal cognoscenti.

Climbing resources for folks at Stanford, also a nice site if you happen to live in the area and want some pointers to good local climbing.

Another nice page for climbers in the bay area.

High quality PhD humor, and grad school advice. Ahhh Celia, intelligent, beautiful, charming, if only...

Looking for Beta? Check out Supertopo and Dr. Topo. No clue what Beta is? Try this link.

Some of the folks that I play with at Stanford are here and here. Some of the folks I used to play with at Berkeley are here.

The one true source for film information.

Several people have made the claim that I sound like Ira Glass . I have no opinion about the veracity of this claim.

Check out pictures of Darrell and I climbing in Bishop.

Farewell to an amazing person.