Jack O'Connor
Special guest
Jack is a software engineer focused on cryptography, and the lead author of BLAKE3. Prior to that, he worked at Keybase on several cryptography projects, including the Saltpack message format and exploding/ephemeral chat messages. Currently he works on encryption at Zoom, and maintains a few Rust crates in his spare time.
Jack O'Connor has been a guest on 1 episode.
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Episode 3: BLAKE3, A Parallelizable Hash Function Using Merkle Trees!
October 13th, 2020 | 45 mins 36 secs
hash functions
Jack O'Connor and Jean-Philippe Aumasson discuss how Merkle Trees make the new BLAKE3 hash function special, and talk about the design process for the BLAKE family of hash functions in general.