Václav (Vashek) Matyáš is a Professor at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, also serving as the Vice-Dean for Alumni Relations and Lifelong Learning at the Faculty of Informatics. His research interests are related to applied cryptography and security; he has published well over 200 peer-reviewed papers and articles and has co-authored several books. He worked in the past with Red Hat Czech, CyLab at Carnegie Mellon University, as a Fulbright-Masaryk Visiting Scholar at the Center for Research on Computation and Society of Harvard University, Microsoft Research Cambridge, University College Dublin, Ubilab at UBS AG, and as a Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellow with the Cambridge University Computer Lab. Vashek also worked on the Common Criteria and in ISO/IEC JTC1 SC27. He received his PhD degree from Masaryk University, Brno, and can be contacted at [email protected]