Vipul Ved Prakash

Vipul Ved Prakash (born 1977) is a software engineer and entrepreneur, most widely known for creating Vipul's Razor, a collaborative anti-spam system. In 2001, Vipul co-founded [ [http://www.sagecertification.org/publications/login/2005-04/pdfs/haskins0504.pdf ISP Admin: Interview with Vipul Ved Prakash] ] Cloudmark, a company thatbuilds email security software for consumers, enterprises and ISPs basedon the collaborative filtration technology of Vipul's Razor.

Biography

Vipul grew up in various parts of New Delhi, India. A determined autodidact, he spent most of his teenage years outside classrooms, writing computer programs and playing competitive Table Tennis. At the age of 13, he won the junior state championship and played on the national Table Tennis circuit until he graduated from high school. Vipul attended St. Stephen's College, Delhi for undergraduate studies in Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, but eventually dropped out [ [http://www.technologyreviewonline.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?Cand=T&TRID=302 TR 35 Vipul Ved Prakash, Young Innovator] ] to pursue his interests in software design. In the late-90s, Vipul co-founded, with Ashish Gulhati, an Internet privacy company (Sense/Net) for early Internet users in India and wrote extensively for computer magazines and industry journals [ [http://www.india-today.com/ttoday/112000/techno.html Fishy Business] ] , including a regular column, Net Zeppelin, on networking protocols for the Indian edition of the PC World Magazine.

Open Source and Cryptography

Vipul is an ardent supporter of the free software movement andhas published a lot of his work under Open Source licenses. Hehas written several popular extensions to the Perlprogramming language, that include [http://search.cpan.org/author/VIPUL/Crypt-RSA/ Crypt::RSA] , [http://search.cpan.org/author/VIPUL/Crypt-Primes/ Crypt::Primes] and [http://search.cpan.org/author/VIPUL/Net-XWhois/ Net::XWhois] . Vipul has a stronginterest in cryptography and considers himself a cypherpunk.He implemented the RSA cryptosystem in an export-friendlyform factor as Perl code in the shape of a dolphin.More recently, he published a design for an electronic votingsystem dubbed [http://www.infosecwriters.com/hhworld/hh9/voting.txt Athens] that uses cryptographic methods to provide proofs ofcorrectness.

In May, 2000, Vipul and Rishab A. Ghosh, publishedthe [http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_7/ghosh/index.html Orbiten Free Software Survey] ,which is considered to be the first successful attempt at building acomprehensive empirical model of contribution to Open Source projects.The software and methodologies developed for the survey are nowwidely used in Open Source research.

External links

* [http://vipul.net Vipul Ved Prakash's homepage]
* [http://blog.net Vipul Ved Prakash's blog]
* [http://www.linkedin.com/in/vipulved Vipul Ved Prakash's LinkedIn profile]

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