Dmitry Khovratovich | |
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| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Occupation | cryptographer |
| Known for | Equihash, Argon2 |
Dmitry Khovratovich is a Russian cryptographer, currently a Lead Cryptographer for the Dusk Network, researcher for the Ethereum Foundation, and member of the International Association for Cryptologic Research. [1]
Khovratovich, together with Alex Biryukov, 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. [2] 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, [3] an attack on the RadioGatún cryptographic primitive, [4] and also the current best cryptanalysis on Skein, [5] a candidate for the SHA-3 competition.
In 2014, he published a research about the deanonymisation of clients in the Bitcoin P2P network [6]
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