Born In Research
To Restore Trust Into
What Matters.

Principal Cryptographic Technologist: Vladimir Soukharev is a Principal Cryptographic Technologist and Chief Post-Quantum Researcher at InfoSec Global. He is relentlessly focused on cryptographic research and development and is inspired by continuous innovation. Vladimir obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, specializing in cryptography, security and privacy under the supervision of David Jao. His thesis title was “Post-Quantum Elliptic Curve Cryptography.”

He was part of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research, CryptoWorks21 and has contributed and published works at world-renowned conferences and in journals, such as PQCrypto, Financial Cryptography and the Journal of Mathematical Cryptology. Since completing his formal studies, he has dedicated his work life to advancing the knowledge and application of cutting-edge cryptography and cybersecurity technologies to protect vital information and communications in complex, highly regulated environments.

Vladimir’s main area of focus is post-quantum cryptography, but he looks at the entire cryptographic and security spectrum. He is also a co-author on the submission for NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards Competition, titled SIKE (Supersingular Isogeny Key Encapsulation).

‍

‍Victoria de Quehen is a Cryptographer at InfoSec Global in Toronto. Her educational background includes an undergraduate degree in math from Queen’s University and a Master’s degree in Number Theory from McGill University. Professionally, she is developing innovative expertise in the field of digital security, where for the past 6 years she has been applying her knowledge of elliptic curves, and math in general, to conduct new cryptographic research on post-quantum encryption. She is actively involved in the post-quantum research community, and organizes international research workshops.

Her main interest is in the optimization of post-quantum algorithms, with a special interested in hardware speed-ups, to improve security for information requiring long-term confidentiality.

‍

Chief Cryptographic Research Scientist: Adrianis a Software Developer with deep cryptographic experience. Adrian joined InfoSec in 2020, having worked first at Certicom and then when acquired by Blackberry/RIM. He has a Master’s in Mathematics from University of Bucharest. Adrian has been involved in a number of touchpoints: including, but not limited to:

• Public Key and Symmetric Cryptography: ECC, block ciphers, sponge functions where he worked on ECC, PQC development, design and standards at Certicom (1995 - 2011), RIM (2011 - 2013); wrote Security Builder crypto library; customer cryptography at InfoSec Global (2013 - 2015), Darkmatter (2015-2018): new crypto suites, implementation and deployment using ECC and PQC for public key part and AES design and sponge functions for symmetric part; blockchain fault tolerance: Byzantine agreement protocol.
• Homomorphic Encryption: ring-LWE
• Secure & Privacy Preserving Multi-party Computation:additive shares, Shamir shares, oblivious transferd.
• Threshold Shared Secrets, digital signatures: ECDSAt
• Machine Learning: Linear and logistic regression, regression trees, deep learning where he worked on: CN-Insight product at CryptoNumerics (2019) which allows to train statistical and machine learning models on datasets without the need to centralize or relocate them; implemented the homomorphic initializer to replace trusted initializers in decentralized ML models.