Karim Eldefrawy

Cryptography, Cybersecurity, Privacy

Co-founder and CTO at Confidencial.io
2017-2021: SRI
2011-2016: HRL Laboratories
2006-2010: PhD@UC Irvine

The Great Cipher Relay

From Enigma to encrypted computation

Nearly a century of cryptography, passed hand to hand—plaintext not included.

The One-Bit Grand Tour

From entropy to qubits

One bit walks into information theory and comes out entangled.

Hilbert’s Margin Hotel

Vacancies: ∞

There is always room for one more idea.

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