I am a Ph.D. student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign working with Professor Ralph Johnson. My research interests are Service Oriented Architecture, Security, Web Services, Security Patterns etc. My email address is mhafiz at uiuc d.t edu I am compiling catalog of security patterns in the Patternshare web site. Right now(Dec 18, 2005), It is accessible using an internal link. http://patternshare.org/default.aspx/Home.UIUC.HomePage My home page is available at, https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/mhafiz/www I mostly write about "non-serious" stuff in my Blog, but here and there you might find something useful. http://www.livejournal.com/users/munawar/