Ben Laurie | |
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![]() Laurie in December 2007 | |
Occupation | Software engineer |
Ben Laurie is an English software engineer. Laurie wrote Apache-SSL, [1] the basis of most SSL-enabled versions of the Apache HTTP Server. He developed the MUD Gods, which was innovative in including online creation in its endgame. [2]
Laurie also has written several articles, papers [3] [4] [5] [6] and books, [7] [8] and is interested in ideal knots and their applications. [9] [10]
Laurie was a member of WikiLeaks' Advisory Board. [11] According to Laurie, he had little involvement with WikiLeaks, and didn't know who ran the site other than Julian Assange. [12] In 2009, he also said he wouldn't trust WikiLeaks to protect him if he were a whistleblower because "the things that Wikileaks relies on are not sufficiently strong to defend against" a government's resources. [13]
In 2024, Ben Laurie together with Al Cutter, Emilia Käsper and Adam Langley received the Levchin Prize ""for creating and deploying Certificate Transparency at scale". [14]