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| Alexander Peslyak, better known as Solar Designer, has been professionally involved in computer and network security since 1997, and he has been professionally developing software long before that. Alexander is an Open Source software author & team leader at [[http://www.openwall.com|Openwall Project]] and [[http://www.openwall.com/Owl/|Openwall GNU/*/Linux]], computer security expert, Founder & CTO at Openwall, Inc. - a [[http://www.openwall.com/services/|professional services]] company with clients primarily in the US, member of [[http://www.openwall.com/community/|informal and semi-formal computer security communities]]. | Alexander Peslyak, better known as Solar Designer, has been professionally involved in computer and network security since 1997, and he has been professionally developing software long before that. Alexander is an Open Source software author & team leader at [[http://www.openwall.com|Openwall Project]] and [[http://www.openwall.com/Owl/|Openwall GNU/*/Linux]], computer security expert, Founder & CTO at Openwall, Inc. - a [[http://www.openwall.com/services/|professional services]] company with clients primarily in the US, member of [[http://www.openwall.com/community/|informal and semi-formal computer security communities]]. | ||
| - | Alexander has [[http://www.openwall.com/presentations/|presented on computer security and Open Source software topics at international conferences]] ([[http://www.hal2001.org|HAL2001]], [[http://www.nordu.org/NordU2002/|NordU]], [[http://archive.fosdem.org/2003/|FOSDEM]], [[http://www.cansecwest.com|CanSecWest]]), served as the technical reviewer for a novel computer security book ([[http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx|Michal Zalewski]]'s [[http://www.openwall.com/books/silence/|Silence on the Wire]]) and wrote the [[http://www.openwall.com/books/silence/|foreword]] for it. He is recognized in the "security community" primarily for the [[http://freshmeat.net/users/solardiz|security tools (software) released to the public under liberal Open Source licenses]], and for many contributions to other popular Open Source software (primarily Linux and related applications). | + | Alexander has [[http://www.openwall.com/presentations/|presented on computer security and Open Source software topics at international conferences]] ([[http://www.hal2001.org|HAL2001]], NordU, [[http://archive.fosdem.org/2003/|FOSDEM]], [[http://www.cansecwest.com|CanSecWest]]), served as the technical reviewer for a novel computer security book ([[http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx|Michal Zalewski]]'s [[http://www.openwall.com/books/silence/|Silence on the Wire]]) and wrote the [[http://www.openwall.com/books/silence/|foreword]] for it. He is recognized in the "security community" primarily for the [[http://freshmeat.net/users/solardiz|security tools (software) released to the public under liberal Open Source licenses]], and for many contributions to other popular Open Source software (primarily Linux and related applications). |
| + | Also find Alexander on: | ||
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| + | * [[https://twitter.com/solardiz|Twitter]] | ||
| + | * [[https://github.com/solardiz|GitHub]] | ||
| + | * [[http://phrack.org/issues/69/2.html#article|Phrack magazine]] | ||
| + | * [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/solar|LinkedIn]] | ||
| + | * [[wp>Solar Designer|Wikipedia]] <sub>(which I don't dare to edit myself, so its focus is slightly weird - solar)</sub> | ||
| The vastly incomplete timeline is roughly as follows: | The vastly incomplete timeline is roughly as follows: | ||
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| + | 2008 - 2017 | ||
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| + | Advisory board member at [[http://ocert.org|oCERT]] (Open Source Computer Emergency Response Team). | ||
| 2008 - present | 2008 - present | ||
| - | Advisory board member at [[http://ocert.org|oCERT]] (Open Source Computer Emergency Response Team), co-founder at [[http://oss-security.openwall.org|oss-security]] (Open Source Software security initiative aimed at bringing cross-vendor coordination for publicly known vulnerabilities and post-disclosure discussions to public view). | + | Co-founder of [[https://oss-security.openwall.org|oss-security]] (Open Source Software security initiative aimed at bringing cross-vendor coordination for publicly known vulnerabilities and post-disclosure discussions to public view) and [[https://oss-security.openwall.org/wiki/mailing-lists/distros|(linux-)distros]] (since 2011, oss-security counterpart for private coordination and pre-disclosure discussions, with strict terms on timely making the vulnerabilities publicly known on oss-security). |
| 2003 - present | 2003 - present | ||
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| Selected achievements relevant to the "current life": | Selected achievements relevant to the "current life": | ||
| - | 1996-present - developed [[http://www.openwall.com/john/|John the Ripper password cracker]], which was the [[http://sectools.org|10th most popular security tool out there according to an independent study conducted in 2006]], and [[http://sectools.org/crackers.html|the first most popular of its kind (cross-platform and Unix password crackers)]]; the [[http://www.openwall.com/john/|homepage]] has exceeded 21 million hits | + | 1996-present - developed [[http://www.openwall.com/john/|John the Ripper password cracker]], which was the [[http://sectools.org|10th most popular security tool out there according to an independent study conducted in 2006]], and [[http://sectools.org/crackers.html|the first most popular of its kind (cross-platform and Unix password crackers)]]; the [[http://www.openwall.com/john/|homepage]] has exceeded 29 million hits |
| 2007,2008 - the world's most deployed "web applications" (forum, blog, CMS "engines") - phpBB3, WordPress (bbPress), Drupal - have chosen to adopt [[http://www.openwall.com/phpass/|password security enhancements developed by Alexander]] | 2007,2008 - the world's most deployed "web applications" (forum, blog, CMS "engines") - phpBB3, WordPress (bbPress), Drupal - have chosen to adopt [[http://www.openwall.com/phpass/|password security enhancements developed by Alexander]] | ||
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| 1997 - published [[http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167420415|the very first Windows buffer overflow exploit]] | 1997 - published [[http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167420415|the very first Windows buffer overflow exploit]] | ||
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| - | Some information is also available on [[http://www.linkedin.com/in/solar|Alexander's LinkedIn page]]. | ||
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| - | There's [[wp>Alexander_Peslyak|a Wikipedia page on me]], which I don't dare to edit myself. Someone so inclined could want to complete it with [[wp>Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#People_who_are_relatively_unknown_.28.22non-public_figures.22.29|some]] of the information available above. - solar | ||
| - | </sub> | ||
| Back to [[:people:solar|Alexander's pseudo homepage]]. | Back to [[:people:solar|Alexander's pseudo homepage]]. | ||