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]
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 MUDGods, 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]
^Danezis, G.; Laurie, B. (2004). "Minx". Proceedings of the 2004 ACM workshop on Privacy in the electronic society - WPES '04. p. 59. doi:10.1145/1029179.1029198. ISBN1581139683.edit
^Laurie, B.; Singer, A. (2008). "Choose the red pillandthe blue pill". Proceedings of the 2008 workshop on New security paradigms - NSPW '08. p. 127. doi:10.1145/1595676.1595695. ISBN9781605583419.edit
