Ben Laurie Explained

Ben Laurie
Occupation:Software engineer

Ben Laurie is an English software engineer.Laurie wrote Apache-SSL,[1] the basis of most SSL-enabled versions of the Apache HTTP Server. He developed the MUD Gods, which was innovative in including online creation in its endgame.[2]

Laurie also has written several articles, papers[3] [4] [5] [6] and books,[7] [8] and is interested in ideal knots and their applications.[9] [10]

Laurie was a member of WikiLeaks' Advisory Board.[11] According to Laurie, he had little involvement with WikiLeaks, and didn't know who ran the site other than Julian Assange.[12] In 2009, he also said he wouldn't trust WikiLeaks to protect him if he were a whistleblower because "the things that Wikileaks relies on are not sufficiently strong to defend against" a government's resources.[13]

In 2024, Ben Laurie together with Al Cutter, Emilia Käsper and Adam Langley received the Levchin Prize “for creating and deploying Certificate Transparency at scale””.[14]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ben Laurie . 2005-10-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20051025090902/http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html . 2005-10-25 . Ben Laurie page at Apache SSL
  2. Web site: Bartle . Richard . Richard Bartle . Interactive Multi-User Computer Games . 1990 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20160202125649/http://ftp.lambda.moo.mud.org/pub/MOO/papers/mudreport.txt . 2016-02-02 .
  3. Laurie . B. . Network Forensics . 10.1145/1016978.1016982 . Queue . 2 . 4 . 50–56 . 2004 . free .
  4. Book: Danezis . G. . Laurie . B. . 10.1145/1029179.1029198 . Minx . Proceedings of the 2004 ACM workshop on Privacy in the electronic society - WPES '04 . 59 . 2004 . 1581139683 . 2361282 .
  5. Book: Laurie . B. . Singer . A. . 10.1145/1595676.1595695 . Choose the red pillandthe blue pill . Proceedings of the 2008 workshop on New security paradigms - NSPW '08 . 127 . 2008 . 9781605583419 . 15894451 .
  6. Book: Laurie . B. . Safer Scripting Through Precompilation . Security Protocols . Lecture Notes in Computer Science . 4631 . 284–288 . 2007 . 978-3-540-77155-5 . 10.1007/978-3-540-77156-2_35.
  7. Book: Laurie, Peter . Laurie, Ben . Apache: The Definitive Guide (Nutshell Handbook) . O'Reilly . Sebastopol, CA . 1997 . 1-56592-250-6 . registration .
  8. Book: Laurie, Peter . Laurie, Ben . Apache: the definitive guide . O'Reilly . Sebastopol, CA . 2002 . 0-596-00203-3 .
  9. Laurie . B. . Katritch . V. . Sogo . J. . Koller . T. . Dubochet . J. . Stasiak . A. . 10.1016/S0006-3495(98)77988-3 . Geometry and Physics of Catenanes Applied to the Study of DNA Replication . Biophysical Journal . 74 . 6 . 2815–2822 . 1998 . 9635735 . 1299622 . 1998BpJ....74.2815L .
  10. Vologodskii . A.V. . Crisona . N.J. . Laurie . B. . Pieranski . P. . Katritch . V. . Dubochet . J. . Stasiak . A. . 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1696 . Sedimentation and electrophoretic migration of DNA knots and catenanes1 . Journal of Molecular Biology . 278 . 1 . 1–3 . 1998 . 9571029 . free .
  11. Web site: WikiLeaks:Advisory Board - WikiLeaks . 2022-07-26 . www.wikileaks.org.
  12. Singel . Ryan . Immune to Critics, Secret-Spilling Wikileaks Plans to Save Journalism ... and the World . en-US . Wired . 2022-07-26 . 1059-1028.
  13. Exposed: Wikileaks' secrets . en-GB . Wired UK . 2022-07-26 . 1357-0978.
  14. Web site: The Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography . Real World Crypto Symposium . International Association for Cryptologic Research . 9 April 2024.

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