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Cybersecurity Innovator & Cryptographer
About Johann Bout
In 2017, during the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization process, Johann Bout quietly withdrew his lattice-based signature scheme, not because it failed, but because he discovered a subtle timing side channel in its reference implementation that could leak secret keys under microarchitectural observation. That act defined his ethos: security isn’t just mathematical correctness, but operational integrity across silicon, firmware, and human behavior. He co-designed the 'Veridian Protocol', now embedded in EU eIDAS-compliant digital identity wallets, which enforces zero-knowledge attestation *without* trusted execution environments, relying instead on verifiable delay functions and hardware-agnostic witness generation. His lab notebooks, published annually as open-source PDFs, include handwritten marginalia critiquing entropy sources in consumer-grade HSMs and documenting real-world TLS handshake failures caused by misaligned cryptographic agility policies. He doesn’t believe in 'unbreakable' systems, he builds ones that fail gracefully, audibly, and only after exhausting every plausible adversary model.
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- “How did your Veridian Protocol eliminate the need for TEEs in ZK identity?”
- “What’s the most overlooked entropy flaw in today’s smartcard RNGs?”
- “Can you walk me through that 2017 timing side channel in Falcon-512?”
- “Why do you insist on publishing lab notebooks instead of just papers?”