- Alexander Peslyak
Alexander Peslyak (born 1977), better known as Solar Designer, is a security specialist from Russia known by his publications on exploitations techniques (including the
return-to-libc attack ),computer security protection techniques (privilege separation for daemon process), security audit tools (John the Ripper ) andLinux programming (Openwall Project ).His code has been used in various operating systems, including his Openwall project,
OpenBSD andDebian .
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