Software engineer and cryptographer
Ben Laurie
Laurie in December 2007
Occupation Software engineer
Ben Laurie is an English software engineer.Laurie wrote Apache-SSL,[ 1] the basis of mostSSL -enabled versions of theApache HTTP Server . He developed theMUD Gods , which was innovative in includingonline creation in its endgame.[ 2]
Laurie also has written several articles, papers[ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6] and books,[ 7] [ 8] and is interested inideal knots and their applications.[ 9] [ 10]
Laurie was a member ofWikiLeaks ' Advisory Board.[ 11] According to Laurie, he had little involvement with WikiLeaks, and didn't know who ran the site other thanJulian 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 theLevchin Prize “for creating and deployingCertificate Transparency at scale””.[ 14]
^ "Ben Laurie" . Archived fromthe original on 2005-10-25. Retrieved2005-10-28 . Ben Laurie page at Apache SSL^ Bartle, Richard (1990)."Interactive Multi-User Computer Games" .Archived from the original on 2016-02-02.^ Laurie, B. (2004)."Network Forensics" .Queue .2 (4):50– 56.doi :10.1145/1016978.1016982 . ^ 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 .ISBN 1581139683 .S2CID 2361282 . ^ 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 .ISBN 9781605583419 .S2CID 15894451 . ^ Laurie, B. (2007). "Safer Scripting Through Precompilation".Security Protocols . Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 4631. pp. 284– 288.doi :10.1007/978-3-540-77156-2_35 .ISBN 978-3-540-77155-5 . ^ Laurie, Peter; Laurie, Ben (1997).Apache: The Definitive Guide (Nutshell Handbook) . Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly.ISBN 1-56592-250-6 . ^ Laurie, Peter; Laurie, Ben (2002).Apache: the definitive guide . Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly.ISBN 0-596-00203-3 . ^ Laurie, B.; Katritch, V.; Sogo, J.; Koller, T.; Dubochet, J.; Stasiak, A. (1998)."Geometry and Physics of Catenanes Applied to the Study of DNA Replication" .Biophysical Journal .74 (6):2815– 2822.Bibcode :1998BpJ....74.2815L .doi :10.1016/S0006-3495(98)77988-3 .PMC 1299622 .PMID 9635735 . ^ Vologodskii, A.V.; Crisona, N.J.; Laurie, B.; Pieranski, P.; Katritch, V.; Dubochet, J.; Stasiak, A. (1998)."Sedimentation and electrophoretic migration of DNA knots and catenanes1" .Journal of Molecular Biology .278 (1):1– 3.doi :10.1006/jmbi.1998.1696 .PMID 9571029 . ^ "WikiLeaks:Advisory Board - WikiLeaks" .www.wikileaks.org . Retrieved2022-07-26 .^ Singel, Ryan."Immune to Critics, Secret-Spilling Wikileaks Plans to Save Journalism ... and the World" .Wired .ISSN 1059-1028 . Retrieved2022-07-26 . ^ "Exposed: Wikileaks' secrets" .Wired UK .ISSN 1357-0978 . Retrieved2022-07-26 .^ "The Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography" .Real World Crypto Symposium . International Association for Cryptologic Research. Retrieved9 April 2024 .
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