Ben Laurie is a founding director of The Apache Software Foundation, a core team member of OpenSSL, a member of the Shmoo Group, a director of the Open Rights Group, Director of Security at The Bunker Secure Hosting and Advisory Board member of WikiLeaks.org. He is currently working with Google in London on various projects, including their Caja javascript sanitizer project.

Ben wrote Apache-SSL, the basis of most SSL-enabled versions of the Apache HTTP Server and is a co-author of OpenPGP:SDK.

Ben also writes articles and papers, many of that can be found on his home page or his blog and is interested in Ideal Knots.