Paper Title: Introduction to the Mathematics of Data Protection

Paper Abstract: Data integrity, recovery, and encryption methods share mathematical foundations that are often described in ways that make them inaccessible to most engineers. This presentation provides an accessible entry into these foundations that allows further investigation and deeper exploration. Topics include basic arithmetic procedures, Cyclic Redundancy Checks (CRCs), Erasure Codes (e.g. RAID 6), Error Correction Codes (ECCs), Data Encryption, and elementary Galois Field theory that are ubiquitous within cloud data centers and storage devices.

Paper Author: William Schwaderer, Principal, Smart Creative

Author Bio: W. David Schwaderer is a Silicon Valley inventor and consultant. As a ShapeShift Ciphers LLC principal, he supported Samsung's San Jose Memory Solutions Lab's (MSL's) Advanced Research and Development initiatives for over four years. There, he invented and co-invented several pending Samsung patent filings related to Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, advanced SSD firmware technologies, and data recovery technologies. David has authored 11 technical books and personally created six commercial software programs. He has delivered presentations and tutorials at Usenix FAST’14 and FAST’16, Flash Memory Summit, Google, Oracle, Sun Labs, Symantec, Stanford, MIT, the Naval Post Graduate School, Samsung, and at Silicon Valley startups and public libraries. David has a Masters Degree in Applied Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and a MBA from the University of Southern California. David's personal advocacy is the reason today's ZIP files have 32-bit CRC checking. He is currently engaged in advanced data cryptography development.