Philipp Jovanovic is a cryptographer and post-doctoral researcher at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Switzerland. He designed several cryptographic algorithms such as the authenticated ciphers NORX, OPP, and MRO, and he is involved in the development of the cothority framework for scalable, decentralized, cryptographic protocols. His research is published regularly at top crypto/security conferences such as USENIX Security, EUROCRYPT, IEEE S&P, CT-RSA, or ASIACRYPT, and he is also frequently active at non-academic conferences like the Chaos Communication Congress. Philipp tweets as @daeinar.