About the Author

JP Aumasson has been developing, researching, and breaking cryptography since 2006. He’s at the origin of the widely used crypto algorithms BLAKE2, BLAKE3, and SipHash, and he organized the Password Hashing Competition that led to the Argon2 standard. JP’s career spans academia, where he earned a PhD from EPFL; the pay-TV security industry; and roles as a security consultant for both private- and public-sector clients. He’s currently co-founder and chief security officer at Taurus SA, a global fintech company based in Geneva that assists financial institutions in safeguarding and managing their digital assets.

About the Technical Reviewer

Pascal Junod is a cryptographer with more than 20 years of academic and industrial experience ...

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