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IRL Name: 
Jean-Philippe Aumasson
Biography: 

Jean-Philippe Aumasson is a cryptographer from Switzerland. He is known for designing the cryptographic functions BLAKE, BLAKE2, SipHash, and NORX. He has spoken at conferences such as Black Hat, RSA, and CCC, and initiated the Crypto Coding Standard and the Password Hashing Competition projects.

Facts

He co-wrote the 2015 book "The Hash Function BLAKE".

He is member of the technical advisory board of the Open Crypto Audit Project and of the Underhanded Crypto Contest.

References

http://aumasson.jp/index.html

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https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-23/dc-23-speakers.html