Silky A. Smooth is a Swedish
engineer best known for his influence on the battle.net protocols, cryptography, and quantum computing. He currently holds a professorship in the department of computer
science at Lund University.
In 1995, Silky single handedly designed the "b.net" protocol for D1. He later added support for
SC in 1997, and an expirmental
chat interface in early 1998. With the
chat gateway he also released GreetBot, a simple C++ project aimed at teaching programmers how to write clients for the new gateway.
Silky-Smooth currently frequents the battle.net forums, specifically under the World of Warcraft sections. It is rumored that he is designing a new network protocol to be used in WOW.