Lev Pachmanov

Lev Pachmanov is the CTO and co-founder of Seal Security. A Unit 8200 alumnus, he researched cryptography and physical side-channel attacks at Tel Aviv University and co-authored published work on extracting encryption keys from PCs and mobile devices, including the research behind CVE-2015-7511 in Libgcrypt. Before Seal, he was a system architect at Curv and, after PayPal acquired the company, a director of blockchain services and infrastructure at PayPal, where he is a co-inventor on patents for multi-party digital signatures. On the Seal blog he writes technical deep dives on critical open source vulnerabilities in projects such as Kafka, MongoDB, Redis, libxml2 and OpenSSL.