Cryptography researcher & developer
Questbook United States
Date Posted: 09 Nov, 2022
Work Location: San Francisco, United States
Salary Offered: $50000 — $200000 yearly
Job Type: Full Time
Experience Required: No experience required
Remote Work: Yes
Stock Options: No
Vacancies: 1 available
Questbook is building the tech stack for a pseudonymous future of work. Hundreds of builders apply for grants on questbook.app every month. Many of them ask to apply pseudonymously to save themselves from discrimination based on their sex, geography, religion and race. Some also want to hide their real identity to avoid getting in trouble with their day job.
We are building the tech stack that allows users to use their credentials that they've accrued over time on services like Github, Twitter or their employer's internal websites - all without revealing their real identity.
About the role
We are building a privacy preserving proof protocol to generate proof of credentials for users. We do so using the TLS session keys and a consensus mechanism. (Please contact me for early versions of the whitepaper)
The closest cousins for what we're building are deco.works and tlsnotary.org .
You'll be best fit if
- Proficient with cryptography involved in TLS, HTTPS, SSL
- Able to write production ready code
- Willing to work on low level networking stack
- Node, Go experience
Sample projects
- Implement a TLS handshake using nodejs
- Build a proxy server that validates the HTTP headers' validity
You will be
- Building protocol level libraries
- Testing and debugging libraries
- Theoretically proving security
- Researching better implementations and expansions to the protocol
About Questbook
Tools for the future of pseudonymous, permissionless work.
Company Size: 11 - 50 People
Year Founded: 2021
Country: United States
Company Status: Actively Hiring
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