| 词条 | Alec Muffett |
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| name = Alec Muffett | image = Alec muffett.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Alec David Edward Muffett | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1968|04|22}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = Internet-security evangelist, architect, and software engineer}} Alec David Edward Muffett (born April 22, 1968) is an Anglo-American internet-security evangelist, architect, and software engineer. He is principally known for his work on Crack, the original Unix password cracker, and for the CrackLib password-integrity testing library; he is also active in the open-source software community. Tech careerMuffett joined Sun Microsystems in 1992, working initially as a systems administrator. He rose “through the ranks” to become the Principal Engineer for Security, a position which he held until he was retrenched, with many others, in 2009[1] (shortly before Oracle acquired Sun). While at Sun he was one of the researchers who worked on the factorization of the 512 bit RSA Challenge Number; RSA-155 was successfully factorized in August 1999.[2] Muffett also worked on the Sun MD5 hash algorithm, which was introduced in Solaris 9 update 2. The new algorithm drew on Muffett's work in pluggable crypt, and it is now implemented in many different languages, for example Python.[3] The algorithm uses the complete text of the famous soliloquy from Shakespeare's Hamlet: "To be or not to be, that is the question..." as the constant data. Muffett justified the choice of this text because "it exposes more programmers to Shakespeare, which has got to be a good thing".[4] After a sabbatical year, Muffett began to work on The Mine! Project, as lead developer. He subsequently became a director and consultant at Green Lane Security; he also consults for Surevine. He became a director of the Open Rights Group in October 2011.[5] Muffett blogs professionally, for Computer World at Unscrewing Security and personally at Dropsafe, and has numerous publications to his credit, besides being a frequent presenter at technical conferences.[6] Muffett is a co-inventor (with Darren Moffat and Casper Dik) of the patent "Method and apparatus for implementing a pluggable password obscuring mechanism", United States Patent 7,249,260, Issued June 12, 2003.[7] In 2015 Muffett was named as one the Top 6 influential security thinkers by SC Magazine [8]. In October of that year he coauthored [9] RFC 7686 "The ".onion" Special-Use Domain Name", with Jacob Applebaum. More recently, Muffett assisted the New York Times with the creation of their own Tor onion site.[10]. Following that he created an Onion Wikipedia site, accessible only over Tor [11] Previously, Muffett worked as a software engineer for Facebook, leading the team which added end-to-end encryption to Facebook Messenger. [12]. Currently, he works as Principal Engineer, Infrastructure Security at Deliveroo [13]. References1. ^ , LinkedIn; accessed March 23, 2017. 2. ^RSA-155 is factored! {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722014245/http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2098 |date=2012-07-22 }}, rsa.com; accessed March 23, 2017. 3. ^passlib.hash.sun_md5_crypt - Sun MD5 Crypt, packages.python.org; accessed March 23, 2017. 4. ^ OpenSolaris, Pluggable Crypt, and the SunMD5 Password Hash Algorithm 5. ^ Board of Directors, Open Rights Group 6. ^Alec Muffett's Speaking History, Lanyrd. 7. ^"Patent: Method and apparatus for implementing a pluggable password obscuring mechanism", Google Patents. 8. ^ [https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/features/top-6-influential-security-thinkers/?fbclid=IwAR3VOUwdMVey3FyAgvitDRfq2S6gzAXMfOJMnVIjqXJY8qrtJUp0lbj-MPs Top 6 influential security thinkers] 9. ^[https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7686?fbclid=IwAR3lIQS3zgZSUcj2yKpu2VT22M_Peu5VYt5Pb-eXArOXlltgL2vfVlp6Qzs RFC 7686 "The ".onion" Special-Use Domain Name"] 10. ^[https://open.nytimes.com/https-open-nytimes-com-the-new-york-times-as-a-tor-onion-service-e0d0b67b7482 The New York Times is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service] NYT 11. ^[https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2017/11/4128/?fbclid=IwAR2N9egXxUHqKy49x9jeCn5gKir8_N5IwW9CYMalH_ddfhzUuezfxXT4y-4 Wikipedia over Tor? Alec Muffett experiments with an Onion Wikipedia site] 12. ^[https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/756451264121167872 I've retired from FB now] Twitter 13. ^[https://deliveroo.engineering/authors/alec-muffett/] External links
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