Dimitris Karakostas is a software engineer and a cryptography researcher at the Security and Crypto lab at the University of Athens. His work on cryptographic compression attacks concludes his degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. He has previously worked for Nokia. In Black Hat Asia 2016, he presented Rupture, a generic compression side-channel attack framework. His research interests include decentralized systems, web security, systems engineering, and data analysis.
