Alec Muffett
{{short description|Software engineer, security expert (born 1968)}}
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| birth_name = Alec David Edward Muffett
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| occupation = Internet-security evangelist, architect, and software engineer}}
Alec David Edward Muffett (born 22 April 1968) is an Anglo-American internet security expert and software engineer..
Career
Muffett 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{{cite web |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/alecmuffett/ |title=Alec Muffett, Profile |author= |website=LinkedIn |access-date=30 January 2020}} (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.[http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2098 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. He created Crack, the original password cracker for Unix, and for the CrackLib password-integrity testing library.
In 2015, Muffett was named as one of the top six influential security thinkers by SC Magazine.{{Cite web|url=https://www.scmagazine.com/feature/content/top-6-influential-security-thinkers|title=Top 6 influential security thinkers|date=14 December 2015|website=SC Media}}
Muffett assisted in creating .onion websites for The New York Times,{{Cite web |last=Sandvik |first=Runa |date=2017-10-27 |title=The New York Times is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service |url=https://open.nytimes.com/https-open-nytimes-com-the-new-york-times-as-a-tor-onion-service-e0d0b67b7482 |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=Medium |language=en}} Wikipedia,{{Cite web|url=https://wikimedia.org.uk/2017/11/4128/|title=Wikipedia over Tor? Alec Muffett experiments with an Onion Wikipedia site|date=27 November 2017|website=WMUK}} BBC News,{{cite web |last=al-Salmi |first=Abdallah |date=2019-10-30 |title=Leveraging the Tor Network to circumvent blocking of BBC News content |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/936e460a-03b3-41db-be96-a6f2f27934e6 |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=BBC}} Brave,{{cite web |last=Kero |first=Ben |date=2020-10-05 |title=Brave.com now has its own Tor Onion Service, providing more users with secure access to Brave |url=https://brave.com/new-onion-service/ |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=brave.com}} Twitter,{{Cite web |last=Robertson |first=Adi |date=2022-03-09 |title=Twitter is launching a Tor-friendly version of its site |url=https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/8/22967843/twitter-tor-onion-service-version-launch |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=The Verge}} The Guardian,{{Cite web |last=Soul |first=Jon |last2=Kokkini |first2=Ioanna |date=2022-10-06 |title=How we built the Guardian’s Tor Onion service |url=https://www.theguardian.com/info/2022/oct/06/how-we-built-the-guardians-tor-onion-service |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=The Guardian}} and Reddit.{{Cite web |date=2022-10-25 |title=Reddit Onion Service Launch : r/redditsecurity |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsecurity/comments/yd6hqg/reddit_onion_service_launch/ |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=Reddit}}
References
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External links
- [http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/ Personal blog]
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Category:Computer security specialists
Category:Alumni of University College London
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:American software engineers
Category:British software engineers