John E. Hershey has more than 30 years’ experience in telecom security. The author or co-author of five advanced texts: Hadamard Matrix Analysis and Synthesis : With Applications to Communications and Signal/Image Processing; The Elements of System Design; Data Transportation and Protection (Applications of Communications Theory); Perspectives in Spread Spectrum; and Doppler Applications in LEO Satellite Communication Systems, he was elected a Fellow of the IEEE “for contributions to secure communications” and currently teaches cryptography at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He lives in Ballston Lake, New York.