Richard T. Carback III

Richard Carback

Cryptographer · Privacy Engineer · Builder

Dr. Richard T. Carback III is co-founder of Postquant Labs which is building Quip Network, the world’s shared quantum computer. He is also co-founder of the xx network, a privacy preserving messaging platform backed by a blockchain designed with post quantum resistance in mind.

His career spans post quantum cryptography, cryptographic systems engineering, verifiable elections, and privacy-preserving networks. He previously led the embedded systems security group at Charles Stark Draper Laboratories, spun out Lexumo, a startup providing automated open-source vulnerability monitoring for IoT platforms, and was Chief Scientist at Convergent Technologies, Inc.

Dr. Carback was the architect behind Scantegrity, the first cryptographically verifiable election system used in a binding government election (Takoma Park, MD, 2009 and 2011). His recent research work includes VoteXX, a coercion-resistant internet voting system using zero-knowledge proofs and multiparty computation.

Dr. Carback holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UMBC (2010), where he worked with Alan Sherman in the Center for Information Security and Assurance.

Publications

Research spanning verifiable elections, privacy-preserving networks, and post-quantum cryptography.

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Projects

Open source tools, decompilers, and cryptographic systems built over the years.

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Blog

Technical writing on cryptography, systems engineering, and privacy technology.

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Media

Talks, panels, hackathons, and press. Conference presentations and YouTube channel.

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