nora trapp

applied cryptographer & engineer at BKC/ASML (harvard) working at the intersection of technology and human rights, building cryptographic systems for dissidents and whistleblowers, and making privacy accessible to all.

selected work

• juicebox protocol: distributed storage and recovery of secrets [whitepaper] [blog] [github]
• lessons learned under pressure: what engineering looks like when lives are on the line [talk]
• signal foundation: usernames, group state, group calls, stories, secure value recovery, protest support, censorship circumvention, device transfer, disappearing messages, registration lock, reactions, sealed sender, link previews, etc.