RISC-V BUSINESS
Christina Quast is an independent security researcher from Germany who speaks and programs in lots of languages. She’s been attending and presenting at all kinds of infosec conferences and various hacker challenges over the course of her studies. Currently she’s based in Nice, France, where she works as an embedded systems engineer and brings her expertise in security to that field.
She’s worked on Embedded Linux kernel drivers, as well as getting U-Boot to play nice with embedded hardware. As part of her master’s project and previous studies, she wrote code for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, in particular a Wireshark plugin for dissecting LHCb particle detection data, and later ported the LHCb RICH particle identification algorithm to the Xeon Phi platform.
Linux Format: So you’ve just gotten your masters degree? Well done!
Christina Quast: Haha, that bio is a little out of date. I got that one a year and a half ago. I started with Computer Science, and there was a placement involved – so we spent some of our studies working for a company. Once I’d done that I felt too young to go out into the real world, so like a good German I continued to study and did my master’s in Electrical Engineering.
I always knew I wanted to work with computers, though there wasn’t any one particular event. But when I watched movies growing up I never wanted to be the action hero, I wanted to be the nerdy one who knew how the system worked and how to manipulate it.
That is real power. So apart from the talk you’re presenting at this conference, Exploiting Buffer Overflows on RISC-V, you also gave one last
