The author of "John the Ripper" will speak at PHDays 2012

In 1996, Alexander Peslyak (Solar Designer) created the John the Ripper program. This cross-platform utility for analyzing the strength of passwords entered the top 10 of the most popular software in the field of information security, and the site of the program 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 such as phpBB 3, WordPress and Drupal have adopted password security improvements.
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In 2009, this extraordinarily talented man won 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”. The presentation will cover issues of password protection, history and prospects for the development of authentication technologies in the near future.

Autobiography of Alexander Peslyak
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Registration at PHDays starts May 14 at noon

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

On PHDays, you can crack everything that moves, talk with Bruce Schneier and wash down the failures with free tequila. We will publish a description of the registration process very soon. Follow the news!

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