Ben Laurie

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Ben Laurie
Ben laurie.jpg
Residence United Kingdom
Website http://www.links.org/

Ben Laurie is a software engineer, protocol designer and cryptographer.[1] He is a founding director of The Apache Software Foundation, a core team member of OpenSSL, a member of the Shmoo Group, a director of the Open Rights Group, Director of Security at The Bunker Secure Hosting,[2] Trustee and Founder-member of FreeBMD, Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University's Computer Laboratory,[3] a committer at FreeBSD and Advisory Board member of WikiLeaks.org.[4]

Laurie works for Google[5] in London on various projects, currently focused on Certificate transparency.[6]

Ben wrote Apache-SSL,[7] the basis of most SSL-enabled versions of the Apache HTTP Server and is a co-author of OpenPGP:SDK. He developed the MUD Gods, which was innovative in including online creation in its endgame. [8]

Ben also has written several articles, papers[9][10][11][12] and books,[13][14] many of which can be found on his home page[15] or his blog[16] and is interested in ideal knots and their applications.[17][18]

References

  1. http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/ben-laurie/0/3a/300 Ben Laurie profile at LinkedIn
  2. http://www.thebunker.net/security/ben-laurie/ Director of Security Ben Laurie
  3. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/people/
  4. https://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Advisory_Board Advisory Board of WikiLeaks
  5. http://research.google.com/pubs/author9639.html Ben Laurie, Publications at Google
  6. http://www.certificate-transparency.org/ Google's Certificate Transparency project fixes several structural flaws in the SSL certificate system
  7. http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html Ben Laurie page at Apache SSL
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  15. http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html Laurie home page at Apache
  16. http://www.links.org/ Ben Laurie blog
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External links

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