Moxie Marlinspike
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Moxie Marlinspike is an American entrepreneur, cryptographer, and computer security researcher.[1][2] Marlinspike is the creator of Signal, co-founder of the Signal Technology Foundation, and served as the first CEO of Signal Messenger LLC. He is also a co-author of the Signal Protocol encryption used by Signal, WhatsApp,[3] Google Messages,[4] Facebook Messenger,[5] and Skype.[6]
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Born | Early 1980s[1] Georgia, U.S. |
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Marlinspike is a former head of the security team at Twitter[7] and the author of a proposed SSL authentication system replacement called Convergence.[8] He previously maintained a cloud-based WPA cracking service[9] and a targeted anonymity service called GoogleSharing.[10]