About
Longer form: the work, the novel, and how one became the other.
Andreas Renz
Andreas Renz is a cryptologist and cybersecurity researcher based in Switzerland. He writes fiction about systems that shouldn't break, and the people who break them.
His debut novel, Cleartext, is a near-future techno-thriller set against the migration to post-quantum cryptography. It follows the people who spend their careers securing the infrastructure most of the world never thinks about until it fails. The book draws on his work in applied cryptography and cybersecurity, where the gap between theoretical soundness and deployed reality is where most of the interesting problems live.
As 0xLoopTheory, he writes nonfiction about post-quantum cryptography at encryptorium.com: signatures, key exchange, protocol analysis, and the practical side of systems that shouldn't break.
Elsewhere
encryptorium.com —
nonfiction about post-quantum cryptography, written as 0xLoopTheory
cleartextnovel.com —
the novel
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