Ivan Krstić is a Croatian

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expert, currently working on core security at

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Krstić was previously the director of security architecture at One Laptop per Child. He is a co-author of ''The Official

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Book'' ().

Biography

Born in

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, Krstić received a scholarship to attend the

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school in

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, when he was 15. In 2004, he enrolled at

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but took a year's leave to work on secure electronic healthcare at Croatia's largest children's hospital. After returning to Harvard in 2005, he took another leave when offered a position with One Laptop per Child. While there, he designed the Bitfrost security architecture and personally oversaw the project's first two in-country deployments, in

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and

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. He left the project in early 2008 and later joined Apple in May 2009.

Recognition

In 2007, Krstić became a

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laureate, selected by the MIT ''

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'' as one of the world's top 35 innovators under the age of 35. A year later, ''

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'' magazine declared him one of the top three most influential people in modern computer security, and one of the top 100 in all of IT.

References

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