Silur
Cryptographer, Hacker, Monero Research Lab
Originally a hacker, pentester and criminal advisor with (self-claimed) relatively good knowledge in cryptography design, the blockchain industry literally grew around me from being a shady question around web projects to one of the most thrilling subjects both in startup and government levels. Since then I'm mostly researching ways to keep this new kind of P2P economy private and anonymous, with a focus on quantum-safety.
I was a former member of Ethereum Foundation, currently a contributor to Monero research lab, Libertaria, and founder of Rhyno tech where I help companies to adopt advanced use-cases like zeroknowledge protocols, ANDOS, outsourced computing and homomorphic encryption. (hcpp18)
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Archive (1)
Abusing The Mastercard Protocol To Hack Bitcoin Into Fiat Payment Terminals
Hardware (card) wallets used today are very far from being backward-compatible. Every bitcoin card wallet needs their own app, in some cases their own reading device. In this talk we explore how the EMV protocol used in our (fiat) credit cards could be abused to complete the signature of a BTC transaction while hiding the crypto-specific stuff from the reader so we can accept crypto payments using.. (2021-05-27)
