Biography
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger has a diploma degree in Bioinformatics from the
University of Tuebingen and is currently a part-time doctoral student at
Ruhr-University Bochum and Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University. His PhD focuses on
side channel attacks against hard disk encryption.
His day job at the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) Germany is
about analyzing and improving hardware, firmware and operating system
security. At BSI, he pushes vendors to improve hardware and firmware security
in desktops, laptops and servers by reducing the attack surface and moving
towards verifiable code, reproducible builds and security by design. Secure
firmware is not just a good idea, it's absolutely vital for trustworthy
systems.
As a past and current FOSS contributor he has worked on the Linux kernel,
coreboot, flashrom and other projects.