Dan Cvrcek is a cryptography architect and engineer. He has extensive experience with large banking systems from operational procedures to system architectures: Swift, card payment processing, UK Faster Payments, IBM and Cryptomathic key management systems. His hardware encounters include smart cards, custom and embedded systems, and hardware security modules, from design, testing, defences to attacks, including reverse-engineering of a hidden API in Chrysalis-ITS (now SafeNet) HSM. Dan is a PhD and associate professor with degrees from Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic 2001, 2006), post-doc at University of Cambridge (2003-2004, 2007-2008), Deloitte London (2008-2009), start-ups, freelance security consultant (2010-2016) - clients include Barclays and Deutsche Bank, founded Enigma Bridge in 2015.
