Reinhard Lüftenegger

Cryptographer

Graz, Styria, Austria

About

Math, Cryptography, Privacy. Rust. Mountains. https://remalue.github.io/

Experience

  • Cryptography Engineer at Shielded Technologies
    Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

    ‣ R&D, co-developing and co-maintaining the cryptographic libraries behind the Midnight network. ‣ Implementing protocol updates, performance improvements, and ZK-circuits with respect to the Halo2/PLONK zero-knowledge SNARK. ‣ Working mainly with Rust.

  • Cryptography Engineer at Input Output
    Jan 2025 - Sep 2025 · 9 mos

    Transitioned to Shielded Technologies, a spinout from Input Output.

  • Career Break at null
    Jun 2024 - Sep 2024 · 4 mos

    Bicycling across the Andes mountains, from Chile to Colombia.

  • Postdoctoral Researcher at Technische Universität Graz
    Jan 2024 - May 2024 · 5 mos

  • Research Assistant at Technische Universität Graz
    Nov 2017 - Oct 2019 · 2 yrs

    Implementation of cryptographic algorithms as part of the Horizon2020 research and innovation funding programme by the European Commission.