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Explaining the Java ECDSA Critical Vulnerability
On April 19, 2022, information about a severe vulnerability in recent versions of Java shook up the security community.
Edlyn has a distinguished career as a Professor of Mathematics at the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization and the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research, University of Waterloo (Canada), until she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she worked as Senior Solutions Architect at Cryptomathic and taught German at the GISSV Saturday School. Edlyn currently lives in Leipzig, Germany, working as Senior Cryptography Consultant at Cryptomathic. She is also busy mother of four children ages 11 to 20.
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On April 19, 2022, information about a severe vulnerability in recent versions of Java shook up the security community.
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