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Ben Laurie

Software engineer and cryptographer

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Ben Laurie is an English software engineer. Laurie wrote Apache-SSL, 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.{{cite web | author-link = Richard Bartle | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160202125649/http://ftp.lambda.moo.mud.org/pub/MOO/papers/mudreport.txt | archive-date = 2016-02-02

Laurie also has written several articles, papers and books, and is interested in ideal knots and their applications.{{Cite journal | doi-access = free

Laurie was a member of WikiLeaks' Advisory Board. According to Laurie, he had little involvement with WikiLeaks, and didn't know who ran the site other than Julian Assange. 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.

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".

References

"Ben Laurie".
(2004). "Network Forensics". ACM Queue.
(2004). "Proceedings of the 2004 ACM workshop on Privacy in the electronic society - WPES '04".
(2008). "Proceedings of the 2008 workshop on New security paradigms - NSPW '08".
(2007). "Security Protocols".
(1997). "Apache: The Definitive Guide (Nutshell Handbook)". O'Reilly.
(2002). "Apache: the definitive guide". O'Reilly.
"WikiLeaks:Advisory Board - WikiLeaks".
Singel, Ryan. "Immune to Critics, Secret-Spilling Wikileaks Plans to Save Journalism ... and the World".
"Exposed: Wikileaks' secrets".
"The Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography". International Association for Cryptologic Research.

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