Дмитрий Ховратович

Expertise:

• Privacy and Security of blockchain projects (Bitcoin, Ethereum).
• Design and analysis of cryptographic schemes (ciphers, password hashing, white-box cryptography).

Achievements:

• Argon2, the new standard for Password Hashing;
• Equihash, the first memory-hard proof-of-work with fast verification;
• Attack on the full AES cipher;
• Deanonymization attack on Bitcoin, disconnecting Tor from Bitcoin.
• White-box cryptography design.
• Best attacks on SHA-1 and SHA-256.

Awards:

• Winner of LuxBlockHackathon 2017;
• Winner of Password Hashing Competition (2014-2015);
• Best Paper Award Asiacrypt 2010;
• Second Best Paper Award FSE 2013.
• Best PhD Thesis (2012);
• Best Scientific Publication in Luxembourg (2011).

I also broke 10+ simpler ciphers and hash functions. Give me a system and I will find a weakness.