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Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open-source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Founded in 1993, the company operates from its headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, and maintains more than 105 offices across over 40 countries worldwide.

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Martin Ukrop

Researcher

Martin Ukrop is a Principal Research Software Engineer with Red Hat Research, focusing on security research and facilitating the industry–academia cooperation in EMEA.

He received his PhD in Computer and Information Systems Security from Masaryk University, Czechia, focusing on human aspects in computer security. He remains an active teacher as well as a life-long learner.

His research looked into making security usable for IT professionals (developers, system administrators and such) that lack a specialized training in computer security. He focused on cryptographic interfaces (both programmable and command-line) of developer tools and software libraries. The emphasis of his work was placed on X.509-capable libraries, such as OpenSSL, GnuTLS and NSS, paying special attention to the process of certificate creation and validation.