Principal Cryptographer, Kudelski Security Jean-Philippe (JP) Aumasson is Principal Cryptographer at Kudelski Security, in Switzerland. JP received a Ph.D. in cryptography from EPFL in 2009, and has authored more than 30 research articles in the field of cryptography and cryptanalysis. He is known for designing the cryptographic functions BLAKE (one of 5 SHA-3 finalists), SipHash (used in Python, Ruby, etc.) and BLAKE2 (used in WinRAR, etc.). He has spoken at security conferences including Black Hat, Chaos Communications Congress, PasswordsCon, and Hashdays. In 2013 he initiated the Cryptography Coding Standard and the Password Hashing Competition. As of 2014, he is member of the technical advisory board of the Open Crypto Audit Project. JP tweets as @veorq.
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