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Mairon Mahzoun

I'm a cryptographer currently living in the Netherlands. I'm passionate about Security, Mathematics, and Nature. In my free times, I travel and photograph wildlife!

Work Experience

Director of Infrastructure Oct 2018 — Aug 2019
Toman Pay, Tehran, Iran

  • Plan, Design, and Implement Cloud Solutions to Handle +1000 Payment Requests per Second.
  • Develop Long-term Strategies for scalability and reliability.
  • Proactively Assess and Enhance Infrastructure Performance.
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Research Intern Jul 2018 — Sep 2018
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

  • Implement a Protocol for Confidential Databases in Untrusted Cloud Environments.
  • Utilize Best Practices for Cryptographic Protocol Development in C++.
  • Detailed Documentation of Development and Testing Phases.
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Site Reliability Engineer Apr 2017 — Jun 2018
Cafe Bazaar, Tehran, Iran

  • Develop Libraries in Go, Elixir, and Python for Cloud Solutions and Virtual-Machines Orchestration.
  • Maintain Kubernetes Clusters Serving +40 Million Active Users.
  • Collaborate with +20 Teams to Facilitate the Migration to the Cloud Environment.

Publications

  1. Ashur, T., Buschman, T., and M. Mahzoun. 2023a. “Algebraic cryptanalysis of POSEIDON”. In: IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., p. 537.
  2. Ashur, T., Kindi, A., and M. Mahzoun. 2023b. “XHash8 and XHash12: Efficient STARK-friendly Hash Functions”. In: IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., p. 1045.
  3. Ashur, T., M. Mahzoun, and Toprakhisar, D. Jan. 2023. “How Not To Design An Efficient FHE-Friendly Block Cipher: Seljuk”. In: The Computer Journal. bxac146.
  4. Cottaar, J., Hövelmanns, K., Hülsing, A., Lange, T., M. Mahzoun, Pellegrini, A., Ravagnani, A., Schäge, S., Trimoska, M., and de Weger, B. 2023d. Report on evaluation of KpqC candidates. Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2023/1853. Link.
  5. Liu, F. and M. Mahzoun. 2023e. “Algebraic Attacks on RAIN and AIM Using Equivalent Representations”. In: IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., p. 1133.
  6. Ashur, T., M. Mahzoun, and Toprakhisar, D. 2022a. “Chaghri - A FHE-friendly Block Cipher”. In: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2022, Los Angeles, CA, USA, November 7-11, 2022. Ed. by H. Yin, A. Stavrou, C. Cremers, and E. Shi. ACM, pp. 139–150.
  7. Barbu, G., Beullens, W., Dottax, E., Giraud, C., Houzelot, A., Li, C., M. Mahzoun, Ranea, A., and Xie, J. 2022b. “ECDSA White-Box Implementations: Attacks and Designs from CHES 2021 Challenge”. In: IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst. 2022.4, pp. 527–552.
  8. Kraleva, L., M. Mahzoun, Posteuca, R., Toprakhisar, D., Ashur, T., and Verbauwhede, I. 2022c. “Cryptanalysis of Strong Physically Unclonable Functions”. In: IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society, pp. 1–1.
  9. M. Mahzoun, Kraleva, L., Posteuca, R., and Ashur, T. 2022d. “Differential Cryptanalysis of K-Cipher”. In: IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2022, Rhodes, Greece, June 30 - July 3, 2022. IEEE, pp. 1–7.

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