John the Ripper author to speak at PHDays 2012

In 1996, Alexander Peslyak (Solar Designer) created the John the Ripper program. This cross-platform tool for analyzing password strength was included in the top 10 of the most popular software in the field of information security, and the program website was visited by 15 million people.

In addition, Alexander is the founder of the Openwall project and the leading developer of Openwall GNU / Linux (Owl), an operating system with a high degree of security.

Alexander Peslyak is considered the greatest password cracker since Ali Baba and Abu Yusuf al-Kindi. In 2007, projects like phpBB 3, WordPress, and Drupal adopted the password security enhancements he developed.

In 2009, this extraordinarily talented man received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the prestigious Black Hat Information Security Conference.

At PHDays 2012, Alexander Peslyak will present the report “Password security: past, present, future”. As part of the presentation, issues of password protection, the history and prospects of the development of authentication technologies in the near future will be considered.

Autobiography of Alexander Peslyak
Profile on opennet.ru

Registration on PHDays starts on May 14 at noon

Attention! Limited number of seats. Set reminders in your organizers at 12:00 on the second Monday of May. The faster you sign up, the more likely you will be among the invited.

At PHDaysyou can hack everything that moves, talk with Bruce Schneier and drink down failures with free tequila. We will publish a description of the registration process very soon. Follow the news!

PS A separate request to the "owls": do not oversleep;)