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| 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). | 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 | ||
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| Back to [[:people:solar|Alexander's pseudo homepage]]. | Back to [[:people:solar|Alexander's pseudo homepage]]. | ||