Solar Designer

IRL Name: 
Alexander Peslyak
Biography: 

Alexander Peslyak was born on 1977 in Russia. He is a computer security specialist and the Founder & CTO of the Openwall Project. He is best known for his publications on exploitation techniques, including the return-to-libc attack and the first generic heap-based buffer overflow exploitation technique, as well as computer security protection techniques such as privilege separation for daemon processes. He is also the author of John The Ripper and other Linux kernel hardening patches.

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Author of a portable, fast, and free implementation of the MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm (RFC 1321).

He served as an advisory board member at the Open Source Computer Emergency Response Team (oCERT) from 2008 until oCERT's conclusion in August 2017.

In 2015 Qualys acknowledged his help with the disclosure of a GNU C Library gethostbyname function buffer overflow (CVE-2015-0235)

He received the 2009 "Lifetime Achievement Award" during the annual Pwnie Award at the Black Hat Security Conference.

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