Artifacts and external references

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    First published:
    21 December 2025.

This page collects public, verifiable references associated with me across different contexts, including personal writing, academic work, professional profiles, and open-source contributions.

It is intended as a consolidated reference for indexing and disambiguation and is maintained over time as new material becomes publicly available.

Primary website

I have a personal website which contains a blog that essentially acts as my personal technical notebook.

Personal website

Blogs and articles

You can find blog posts from me both on my personal blog as well as on Insinuator which is ERNW's and ERNW Research's company blog.

Blog overviews

Individual blog posts (alexmoch.com)

Individual blog posts (Insinuator)

Cryptographic material

My e-mails and commits are usually signed with my S/MIME keys I obtained from SSL.com.

S/MIME public keys

Online profiles

I have profiles on the professional social networks and software forges.

Professional profiles

Code repositories

Miscellaneous profiles

Steam

Professional work

I briefly worked as Embedded Systems Architect at Thales Deutschland GmbH in Ditzingen, Germany from September 2024 to May 2025. Since June 2025 I work as Incident Analyst & IT Security Consultant at ERNW Research GmbH in Heidelberg, Germany where I also do pentests, trainings and open source work.

Academic work

My entire academic career has been with the University of Mannheim. From 2010 to 2013 I studied Mathematics in Business and Economics. From 2013 to 2016 I studied Business Informatics. Then I started my PhD in cryptography at the Chair of Theoretical Computer Science under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Matthias Krause where I focused on lightweight message authentication and encryption schemes.

University of Mannheim

Publications

Creation of custom-made serious games with user-generated learning content (13th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games – 2014)
Parallelizable MACs based on the sum of PRPs with security beyond the birthday bound (Applied Cryptography and Network Security – 17th International Conference – 2019)
Tight security bounds for generic stream cipher constructions (Selected Areas in Cryptography – 26th International Conference – 2019)
Improving OBDD attacks against stream ciphers (Математические вопросы криптографии, Mathematical Aspects of Cryptography – Volume 11, Issue 2 – 2020)
The DRACO stream cipher: provable security against TMDTO attacks (IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology – Volume 2022, Issue 2 – 2022)

Session recorded on YouTube. Slides avalable on IACR.org.
Provable security against generic attacks on stream ciphers (Journal of Mathematical Cryptology – Volume 17, Issue 1 – 2023)

Publication indexes and author profiles

Teaching

Quite a lot of my time spent at the University of Mannheim was spent teaching:

CS 301 Formal Foundations of Computer Science (Fall 2016 – 2021)
CS 307 Algorithms and Data Structures (Fall 2018 – 2022)
CS 404 Cryptography (Spring 2021 & 2024)
CS 406 Theoretical Computer Science (Spring 2016 – 2022)
SM 448 Complexity Theoretical Classification of Games (Fall 2019)
SM 448 Quantum Computing (Fall 2020 – 2022)
CS 550 Algorithmics (Spring 2016 – 2017, Fall 2018 – 2019, Spring 2020 – 2024)
CS 655 Cryptography (Spring 2021 & 2024)
CS 701 Advanced Algorithms for Flow and Matching Problems (Spring 2020 – 2021)

Open-source contributions

I contribute to Gentoo Linux as well as OpenZFS.

Gentoo Linux

Currently, I maintain the sys-fs/zfs package where I also upstreamed a few patches.