何 HE 弈拓 Yituo alias Héctor

Yituo He（何弈拓）is a Ph.D. student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）. He works on high-performance cryptographic implementations, cryptographic engineering, and blockchain security.

He is the author of PQMagic, a high-performance post-quantum cryptography library (国内首个高性能后量子密码算法库); YCrypt, a high-performance SM2/SM3/SM4 library that received the 1st Prize in the 2024 Financial Cryptography Cup (2024年金融密码杯第二阶段最高奖——一等奖); and Mobile-MSM, which took 2nd Prize in the ZPrize competition on accelerating MSM on mobile (@YY Team). His research centers on high-performance cryptographic implementation and the security of real-world crypto systems, spanning software security and blockchain security. He is passionate about making cryptography both fast and safe in practice.