Jean-Philippe Aumasson
Special guest
Jean-Philippe is a cryptographer known for designing the BLAKE and SipHash hash functions, and for his book Serious Cryptography. After a PhD and academic research, he held different roles related to applied cryptography in the private sector, and is now Chief Security Officer of Taurus Group, a start-up he co-founded.
Jean-Philippe Aumasson 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.