Dmitry Khovratovich joins Dusk Network!Dusk Network is proud to announce that Dmitry Khovratovich, the inventor of Equihash joins Dusk Network as Lead Cryptographer.As a cryptographer, Dmitry is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg, and author for the International Association for Cryptologic Research. He developed the
Equihash Proof-of-work algorithm which is currently being used as consensus mechanism for the
ZCash cryptocurrency, and the
Argon2 key derivation function, which won the
Password Hashing Competition in July 2015.
He is the publisher of several
Cryptanalysis papers for a number of mainstream cyphers, such as the first
cryptanalytic attack on full-round
AES-192 and
AES-256 which is faster than a
brute-force attack, an attack on the
Radio Gatún cryptographic
primitive, and also the current best cryptanalysis on
Skein, a candidate for the
SHA-3 competition.
In 2014, he published research about the deanonymisation of clients in the
Bitcoin P2P network.
Dmitry has broken a number of ciphers and hash functions and is quoted: “Give me a system and I will find a weakness”. He is also the author of the Guru reputation system that Dusk Network will employ to ensure convergence of voting in the shortest amount of time.
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Dmitry is one of the leading figures in the world of cryptographic research, and the studies he published during the past years show the passion he has for his work. We are happy to welcome him in the Dusk family, where we know his skills will bring great value to our proposition”— Fulvio Venturelli, Lead Researcher of Dusk Network.
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