Gunnar Alendal is a PhD candidate in the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He received his Cand.Scient. degree in Cryptography from the University of Bergen, Norway. He specializes in the use (and abuse) of cryptography, reverse engineering, malware detection, security vulnerabilities, and exploitation. He has extensive experience in the field and was the main contributor to the "got HW crypto?" research in 2015, which got some media attention.