Ken Bantoft started programming in 1988, and successfully avoided doing it as a full time job until 2002. He opted instead to focus on Unix, Networking, and Linux integration. Beginning at OLS2002, he started working alongside the FreeS/WAN project, integrating various patches into his own fork of their code – Super FreeS/WAN, which is now known as Openswan. He currently lives in Oakville, ON, Canada, with his wife Van, two cats and too many computers. Ken started working for Xelerance in 2003 where he works mostly on IPsec, BGP/OSPF, Asterisk, LDAP and Radius.