Karolin Varner (she/they/sie)
Projects
Rosenpass
Hybrid post-quantum security for WireGuard™ without modifying in-kernel WireGuard™.
X-Wing
https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/039
Provably secure, efficient KEM combiner from x25519 and ML-KEM.
Decryption Despite Errors (unfinished)
https://github.com/koraa/decryption-despite-errors
Developing notions of security and appropriate ciphers for settings where discarding ciphertexts with errors beyond perfect recovery is not permissible (e.g. emergency radio, space probes, airplane radio, video conferences).
Research Interests & Research Intentionality
- Translation research in cryptography science
- Robust Combiners for Post-Quantum Security
- Improving the usability of tools for mechanized verification
- Mechanized verification of protocols
- Cryptography in the Rust programming language
- Cryptography and politics
- Cryptography and social justice
- Ethics of cryptography
- Science communication for cryptography
Curriculum Vitae
since 2024: Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
Researcher Engineer
2019-2023: Adobe
Security focused software engineer conducting internal and external security reviews, maintaining internal cryptography libraries. Conducting special projects to develop custom hardware appliances.
2018: Qabel GmbH
Lead developer on the firmware of a hardware security module
2015-2017: Softwear BV
Data engineering providing high-performance data processing pipelines to facilitate integration of legacy infrastructure
2014-2015: Niemau GmbH
Software development
2013-2014: Soup.io
Sole engineer keeping a social network on the downturn alive
2012: Videri Project
Software Development
I possess no relevant academic titles. I do not carry the German language title "Ingenieur".