JP Aumasson
Cryptographer and author, with two decades in information security.
I design and break cryptography, and have led security operations, strategy, and governance.
I write technical books and fiction, and maintain bfSwA.blog.
I also curate awesome-post-quantum.
Technical Books
Cryptography Designs
- Hash functions BLAKE, BLAKE2 (RFC 7693), BLAKE3
- Pseudorandom function SipHash (used in Linux, Rust, WireGuard, Bitcoin, etc.)
- Post-quantum signatures PRUNE-HORST, Gravity-SPHINCS, SPHINCS+ (FIPS 205, SLH-DSA)
- Password Hashing Competition (winner Argon2, RFC 9106)
Fiction
Side Experiments
- Plaintext, a quiet text editor
- BLAKE3 visualizer, with sound
- Murphy's laws of cryptography
- Research satires
- Quantum merch store








