Jean-Philippe Aumasson

Jean-Philippe (JP) Aumasson is Principal Research Engineer at Kudelski Security, in Switzerland. He designed the popular cryptographic functions BLAKE2 and SipHash, and the new authenticated cipher NORX. He has spoken at Black Hat, DEFCON, RSA, CCC, SyScan, Troopers. He initiated the Crypto Coding Standard and the Password Hashing Competition projects, co-wrote the 2015 book "The Hash Function BLAKE", and will release a new cryptography book in 2017 for a wider audience. JP tweets as @veorq.