Alexander Peslyak
“Solar Designer”John the Ripper
Password cracking and Linux hardening
Rating
85Impact score
Domains
Password crackingKernel hardeningDisclosure
Scouting report
Wrote John the Ripper, still the reference password cracker three decades on. Founded Openwall, pioneered non-executable stack patches for Linux, published early return-into-libc work, and runs the oss-security list where the industry argues about disclosure in public.
Curator’s note
Runs the mailing list where your favorite CVE was first announced.
Sources
- 01Alexander Peslyak en.wikipedia.org
- 02John the Ripper openwall.com
- 03oss-security, the disclosure list he runs openwall.com