Biography

Dr. Nicky Mouha works as a Contractor at the Computer Security Division of NIST, specializing in the analysis, implementation and standardization of cryptographic algorithms. He discovered vulnerabilities in the cryptographic software of billions of devices: CVE-2019-8741 and CVE-2022-37454. Furthermore, he is the designer of Chaskey, which is a MAC algorithm that is internationally standardized under ISO/IEC 29192-6. He is also the inventor of the MILP and SAT-based techniques that have now become the standard tools to analyze the security of cryptographic algorithms against attacks such as differential and linear cryptanalysis.