Martin Hutchinson
I'm a software engineer living near Edinburgh, UK, working on transparency solutions and cryptographically verifiable logs.
I am a core maintainer of Tessera, TesseraCT, Google Certificate Transparency logs, Trillian, and open-source libraries across transparency-dev. I also author and maintain C2SP transparency specifications.
High-throughput, tile-based transparency log engine powering modern verifiable logs and supporting Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs), alongside TesseraCT for Static CT APIs.
High-performance, cryptographically verifiable indexing for transparency logs. Solves the efficiency-verifiability trade-off by enabling fast, targeted lookups with cryptographic proof of completeness.
Author of the conceptual framework for understanding, evaluating, and communicating security and trust properties of verifiable transparency systems.
An interactive terminal UI (TUI) tool for inspecting Transparency Logs (including Static CT logs), verifying inclusion proofs, and inspecting leaf entries.
Key verifiable log infrastructure including log witnesses, checkpoint distributors, and the armored witness — a tamper-proof hardware witness built on secure boot.
Program Committee Co-Chair for the annual Transparency.dev Summit, fostering global collaboration around ecosystem transparency.
Exploring the distinction between reality and our mental models, and why useful maps intentionally leave out details.
On approaching the world with open curiosity and avoiding the trap of rigid naming and categorization.
A brief summary of state maintenance, transaction schedules, and serializability in distributed database systems.