Poul-Henning Kamp is a Danish software developer and a longtime contributor to the FreeBSD operating system, where he wrote the widely used md5crypt implementation of password hashing and built major pieces of the system including the GEOM storage framework, the GBDE encrypted storage layer, parts of the UFS2 file system and the FreeBSD Jails containment mechanism. He is the lead architect of Varnish Cache, an open source HTTP accelerator used to speed up busy websites. In 1998 he also wrote the Beerware license, an informal software license that permits any use of the code in exchange for buying the author a beer if the two ever meet.
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is a Danish computer software developer known for work on various projects including FreeBSD and Vinyl Cache.
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is a Danish computer software developer known for work on various projects including FreeBSD and Vinyl Cache
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known for work on various projects including FreeBSD and Vinyl Cache
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Poul-Henning Kamp designed a baroque and (at the time) computationally expensive algorithm based on the MD5 message digest algorithm
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Poul-Henning Kamp designed a baroque and (at the time) computationally expensive algorithm based on the MD5 message digest algorithm
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