Jean-Philippe Aumasson, aka veorq, is Swiss cryptographer currently employed by Kudelski Security. He is best known for designing the SHA-3 finalist BLAKE and SipHash (used in OpenDNS, Perl, Ruby, etc.) Recently, he initiated the Cryptography Coding Standard and the Password Hashing Competition. Some say that he's terrified of ducks, and that there's an airport in Russia named after him.