Yan Zhu

Yan Zhu
朱颜
Zhu in 2014
Born (1991-05-04) 4 May 1991[1]
Beijing, China[2]
Other names@bcrypt
Alma materMIT[3]
OccupationComputer security engineer
EmployerBrave
Websiteazuki.vip

Yan Zhu (simplified Chinese: 朱颜; traditional Chinese: 朱顏; pinyin: Zhū Yán) is a security engineer, open web standards author, technology speaker, and open source contributor.[4][5]

Education

Yan Zhu attended Metro Academic and Classical High School in St. Louis, Missouri. She dropped out and earned a B.S. in physics at MIT.[3] She enrolled as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at Stanford University in experimental cosmology but dropped out after four months.[4]

Career

Zhu worked for Yahoo as a security engineer in 2014 and 2015. She is a fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation,[6] and is currently the chief security officer and manages the security team at Brave Software.[7][2] In 2015 she was one of Forbes 30 Under 30.[8]

Zhu was on the W3C Technical Architecture Group in 2015[9][10] and is the editor of two W3C documents: the Secure Contexts web standard (2021) and End-to-End Encryption and the Web (2015), a W3C TAG finding that supports the use of end-to-end encryption for web communications.[11][12]

Zhu has contributed to open source works including Brave, HTTPS Everywhere, SecureDrop, Privacy Badger for Firefox, and Tor Browser.[4] As an independent researcher, in 2015 Zhu demonstrated security vulnerabilities in web browsers at the Toorcon security conference in San Diego.[13] She was on the board of directors of the Zcash Foundation from 2017[14] to 2018[15] and Noisebridge in 2013.[16]

References

  1. ^ Zhu, Yan (2016-05-04). "25". Github. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  2. ^ a b "Triangulation 411 Yan Zhu, AKA bcrypt". TWiT.tv. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  3. ^ a b Williams, Tate (5 February 2013). "Boston Programmers Hold Hackathon in Memory of #AaronSwartz". Open Media Boston. Archived from the original on 17 February 2022. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  4. ^ a b c Finley, Klint. "The Ad-Blocking Hacker Making Your Browser More Paranoid". Wired. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  5. ^ "Speaking history for Yan Zhu | Lanyrd". lanyrd.com. Archived from the original on 2017-08-04. Retrieved 2017-09-28.
  6. ^ "EFF People - Staff - Technologist Fellow". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  7. ^ "Yan Zhu on privacy, data mining and the principle of least privilege". siliconrepublic.com. Retrieved 2025-04-29.
  8. ^ "2015 30 Under 30: Enterprise Technology". Forbes. 2015-01-05. Retrieved August 4, 2017.
  9. ^ "W3C Advisory Committee Elects Technical Architecture Group". W3C. 9 January 2015.
  10. ^ "W3C Advisory Committee Elects Technical Architecture Group". W3C. 11 January 2016.
  11. ^ West, Mike; Zhu, Yan (18 September 2021). "Secure Contexts". W3C.
  12. ^ Zhu, Yan (16 July 2015). "End-to-End Encryption and the Web". W3C.
  13. ^ "Unpatched browser weaknesses can be exploited to track millions of Web users". arstechnica.com. Retrieved 2025-04-29.
  14. ^ "Foundation Update for July 2017". Zcash Foundation.
  15. ^ "Zcash Foundation Board Meeting Minutes". GitHub. Zcash Foundation. 28 June 2018.
  16. ^ "Noisebridge Form 990-EZ for period ending December 2013". ProPublica.
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