Ben Laurie
Encyclopedia
Ben Laurie is a software engineer, protocol designer and cryptographer. 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, Trustee and Founder-member of FreeBMD
, a committer at FreeBSD
and Advisory Board member of WikiLeaks
.org.
Laurie is currently working with Google
in London
on various projects, including their Caja
and Javascript
sanitizer project.
Ben wrote Apache-SSL, 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.
Ben also has written several articles, papers and books, many of which can be found on his home page or his blog and is interested in Ideal Knots
and their applications.
Apache Software Foundation
The Apache Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server. The ASF was formed from the Apache Group and incorporated in Delaware, U.S., in June 1999.The Apache Software Foundation is a decentralized community of developers...
, a core team member of OpenSSL
OpenSSL
OpenSSL is an open source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols. The core library implements the basic cryptographic functions and provides various utility functions...
, a member of the Shmoo Group
Shmoo Group
The Shmoo Group is an international organization founded by Bruce Potter in the late 1990s as a non-profit security think-tank. The group is composed of people such as Apache Foundation director Ben Laurie, anonymity guru Len Sassaman, PGP Corporation CTO Jon Callas, and Hollywood film system...
, a director of the Open Rights Group
Open Rights Group
The Open Rights Group is a UK-based organisation that works to preserve digital rights and freedoms by campaigning on digital rights issues, acting as a media clearinghouse service putting journalists in touch with experts, and by fostering a community of grassroots activists...
, Director of Security at The Bunker Secure Hosting, Trustee and Founder-member of FreeBMD
FreeBMD
FreeBMD is a UK-based charitable organisation founded in 1998, and established as charity in 2003 to create a free transcription of the indexes to Births, Marriages and Deaths for England and Wales from 1837 to 1983.-History:...
, a committer at FreeBSD
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX. Although for legal reasons FreeBSD cannot be called “UNIX”, as the direct descendant of BSD UNIX , FreeBSD’s internals and system APIs are UNIX-compliant...
and Advisory Board member of WikiLeaks
Wikileaks
WikiLeaks is an international self-described not-for-profit organisation that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources, news leaks, and whistleblowers. Its website, launched in 2006 under The Sunshine Press organisation, claimed a database of more...
.org.
Laurie is currently working with Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
on various projects, including their Caja
Caja (programming language)
Caja is a Google project and a JavaScript implementation for "virtual iframes" based on the principles of object-capabilities. Caja takes JavaScript , HTML, and CSS input and rewrites it into a safe subset of HTML and CSS, plus a single JavaScript function with no free variables...
and Javascript
JavaScript
JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles....
sanitizer project.
Ben wrote Apache-SSL, the basis of most SSL-enabled versions of the Apache HTTP Server
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server, commonly referred to as Apache , is web server software notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web. In 2009 it became the first web server software to surpass the 100 million website milestone...
and is a co-author of OpenPGP:SDK. He developed the MUD
MUD
A MUD , pronounced , is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, with the term usually referring to text-based instances of these. MUDs combine elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, player versus player, interactive fiction, and online chat...
Gods, which was innovative in including online creation
Online creation
Online Creation, also referred to as OLC, Online Coding, Online Building, and online editing, is a software feature of MUDs that allows users to edit a virtual world from within the game itself...
in its endgame.
Ben also has written several articles, papers and books, many of which can be found on his home page or his blog and is interested in Ideal Knots
Ropelength
In knot theory each realization of a link or knot has an associated ropelength. Intuitively this is the minimal length of an ideally flexible rope that is needed to tie a given link, or knot...
and their applications.