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a Putnam winner

Only once. ;-)

and world class crypto expert

I've made significant contributions to a few areas but I wouldn't call myself a world class crypto expert. For most projects I could name a dozen experts I would consult before myself.

I've made significant contributions to a few areas...

Significant? I'd say tectonic.

The first-ever to find AWS-wide chink in the Amazon armor? https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-12-18-AWS-signature-ve...

Demonstrator of OG Spectre exploit before Google Project Zero got on the train a decade later? https://www.daemonology.net/hyperthreading-considered-harmfu...

...I wouldn't call myself a world class crypto expert...

Of course not: crypto doesn't mean what you think it does, anymore ;) But hey, some blockchains do use scrypt, so that's there too. https://archive.is/jS7wJ

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