Markku-juhani Saarinen
Professor Of Practice (työelämäprofessori, Tietoturva) at Tampere University
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
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Top SchoolMarkku-juhani Saarinen is a Professor of Practice in information security at Tampere University and a Docent in Cryptography with over 25 years of hands-on experience bridging academia and industry. He began as a cryptographer on the SSH2 protocol in 1997 and has since focused on post-quantum and side-channel resistant cryptography, leading PQShield’s first PQC coprocessor and authoring RISC-V cryptography extensions. His career spans research fellowships, embedded and hardware security engineering, and sensitive government consulting, giving him rare expertise across standards, silicon IP, and secure implementation. Equally comfortable designing novel algorithms and shipping semiconductor IP, he combines deep theoretical pedigree (PhD, Royal Holloway) with pragmatic product-driven security engineering based in Tampere, Finland.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Information Security, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Information Security at Royal Holloway, University of LondonMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Scientific Computing (CS and Math), Master of Science (M.Sc.) Scientific Computing (CS and Math) at University of Jyväskylä
English, Finnish
Github Skills (60)
crypto10
ssl10
sha10
risc-v10
post-quantum-cryptography10
cryptography10
aes10
aes-ni10
instruction-set10
c909
decryption9
animation9
ncurses9
hardware-designs9
verilog9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mjosaarinen/pqcbench
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:49 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
mjosaarinen/sm4ni
Apr 2018 - Feb 2019
Demonstration that AES-NI instructions can be used to implement the Chinese Encryption Standard SM4
Contributions:17 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
aes-niencryption
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