The Underhanded Crypto Contest is a research project to better document the state of the art in malicious crypto implementations and designs - and through that understand, lead to better training for reviewers and better detection of flaws, accidental or otherwise. Starting this year, the Underhanded Crypto Contest will be working closely with the Crypto & Privacy Village - this year we are running two short challenge contests; details available on underhandedcrypto.com. Starting next year, the winners of the main event will be announced here.
Adam Caudill is an independent security researcher and software developer with a primary focus on application security, secure communications, and cryptography. He is active in the open source community, writes on security and related topics, and is an advocate for user rights and privacy. His work has been cited by many media outlets and publications around the world, from CNN to Wired and countless others.
Taylor Hornby is a recent graduate and independent security researcher focusing on topics ranging from human usability to side channel information leakage. He has contributed to the open source community by performing both volunteer and paid security audits of popular code, as well as by creating developer-friendly security libraries.