Pekka Ilmari Nikander
I am a former serial entrepreneur and university professor in my 50s,
learning a new life on the path. As of 2022, I’m helping
Ecolise in preparing Horizon
Europe funding proposals in order to apply lessons learned from
ecovillages and permaculture to the European agriculture in the wider
scale.
In my past life, I was a software architect and lead programmer for
over 30 years, mostly focusing on
embedded and IoT. In 2017–2022, I had the pleasure of enjoying
academic freedom at Aalto University.
My brother still works there.
In addition to embedded and and IoT, I also did quite a lot of work on
understanding how distributed ledger technologies (aka blockchains)
could be used to build non-rival and anti-rival compensation methods,
leading us to a post-capitalistic world.
I prefer e-mail for communication, and don’t answer to cold phone
calls. I don’t follow social media.
Personal email: firstname dot lastname at iki dot fi
I’ve pretty much stopped updating this web site.
Please note that some of the links below are broken, due to my previous web
site provider trashing my site and not having time to fish the content
back.
Selected publications from my past life
- Pekka Nikander, Andrei Gurtov, and Thomas R. Henderson, “Host
Identity Protocol (HIP): Connectivity, Mobility, Multi-Homing,
Security, and Privacy over IPv4 and IPv6
Networks,” in IEEE Communications
Surveys and Tutorials, Volume 12 Issue 2, pp. 186-204, April 2010.
- Petri Jokela, Andras Zahemszky, Christian Esteve Rothernberg, Somaya
Arianfar, and Pekka Nikander, “LIPSIN: Line Speed Publish/Subscribe
Inter-Networking,”
SIGCOMM 2009, Barcelona, August 17-21, 2009.
- Tuomas Aura, Pekka Nikander, and Gonzalo Camarillo, “Effects of
Mobility and Multihoming on Transport-Layer
Security,” in
Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy,
Berkeley/Oakland, California, May 9-12, 2004, IEEE Computer Society.
- Pekka Nikander, Jukka Ylitalo, and Jorma Wall, “Integrating
Security, Mobility, and Multi-Homing in a HIP
Way,” in Proceedings of
Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS’03),
February 6-7, 2003, San Diego, CA, pp. 87-99, Internet Society,
February, 2003.
- Jari Arkko and Pekka Nikander, “How to Authenticate Unknown
Principals without Trusted Parties,” in
Proceedings of Security Protocols Workshop 2002, Cambridge, UK,
April 16-19, 2002.
- Pekka Nikander, Kristiina Karvonen, “Users and Trust in
Cyberspace”, a position paper, in the
Proceedings of Cambridge Security Protocols Workshop 2000, April
3-5, 2000, Cambridge University.
Old full publication list
Some presentations
Some past projects
Misc historical