Ethan Heilman

Biography:

I am a PhD student in Boston University's Computer Science Department and a member of the security research group BUSec. I am being advised by Sharon Goldberg. I have done research on novel attacks on hash functions, differential cryptanalysis, Intelligent Transit Systems and cache based side channel attacks. I broke SHA3 contestant Spectral Hash. My current focus is on the RPKI and Bitcoin.

Prior to graduate school I worked as a software engineer at the Broad Institute where I wrote microbial bioinformatics annotation software. I've also worked as a software developer at two successful startups, Pubget and Jumptap. In my free time I write games, experiment with web application technology, and blog about security.

My email address is ethan.r.heilman@gmail.com, my github, on twitter @Ethan_Heilman and my CV is available here.

Publications:

Cryptanalysis of Curl-P and Other Attacks on the IOTA Cryptocurrency

Vulnerability Disclosure and Proof-of-Concept

FSE2020: IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology (2020),

BlackHat USA (2018),

Real World Crypto (2019),

The Arwen Trading Protocols

FC'20: 20th International Conference of Financial Cryptography,

The rewards of selfish mining: technical perspective

Communications of the ACM,

Low-Resource Eclipse Attacks on Ethereum's Peer-to-Peer Network

An Empirical Analysis of Traceability in the Monero Blockchain