It is with immense gratitude and a touch of nostalgia that CASD bids farewell to Philippe Donnay, one of its founders and cornerstones. He had notably succeeded in implementing and testing the entire secure authentication chain — certificate/biometrics from the SD-Box to the remote secure enclave — an essential condition for validating the technology even before the service was launched.
Philippe Donnay also played a decisive role in the development of CASD as we know it today. Through his ideas, expertise and concrete achievements, he helped shape an infrastructure now very widely used for secure data access by researchers and data scientists.
His skills, of a rare breadth — systems, networks, infrastructure, hardware components, as well as legal matters — proved invaluable at every stage of the project’s development, and were generously shared with his colleagues over the years.
We particularly remember his presentation at the 2016 CASD conference, where he introduced CASD and the new version of the SD-Box [link].
Beyond the expert, it is also a colleague deeply appreciated by all who is about to embark on a well-deserved retirement.
The entire CASD team wishes him a retirement as wonderful and fulfilling as his career has been!
