no_maam Erik Tews was born in Germany. He moved to Darmstadt in 2003 where he studied computer science with a minor in Math and Law at Technische Universitat Darmstadt until 2007. He is now a PHD student with a focus on applied cryptanalysis of mostly symmetric crypto algorithms and on wireless protocols. He also works at Technische Universitat Darmstadt as a research assistant and as a system administrator. In his free time, he can be seen at a lot of conferences of the Chaos Computer Club in Germany.