Niels Provos
Honeypots and Safe Browsing
honeyd, bcrypt, and warning a billion browsers
Rating
88Impact score
Domains
HoneypotsPassword hashingWeb malware
Scouting report
Wrote honeyd, co-designed the bcrypt password hash with David Mazières, and created systrace and privilege separation work in OpenSSH. At Google he led the Safe Browsing malware research that put interstitial warnings in front of drive-by download sites, and co-authored the papers that measured how large that problem actually was.
Curator’s note
bcrypt alone has protected more passwords than most companies have users.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Niels Provos by NonAlphabetic, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sources
- 01Niels Provos en.wikipedia.org
- 02A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme (bcrypt, 1999) usenix.org