Nicolas Trippar is a security researcher with 14 years of experience building and breaking systems across financial, enterprise, and government environments, currently focused on applied research at XBOW in New York. He has held senior and leadership roles at Two Sigma and Bloomberg, blending red team tactics, product security, and engineering to harden large-scale platforms. Nicolas pairs hands-on cryptographic and key management work—demonstrated by contributions to sekey, enabling Secure Enclave/Touch ID SSH authentication—with experience driving security features from concept to product. Known for translating adversary techniques into practical defenses, he thrives at the intersection of research, secure engineering, and usability.
Use Touch ID / Secure Enclave for SSH Authentication!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Contributions:48 commits, 12 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily focused on the core functionality of the project, which involves using the Secure Enclave for SSH authentication. Their contributions included implementing and modifying key management functionality with the keychain, including generating, listing, and deleting keys. They also added functionality for short commands and updated the user interface to improve the user experience.
Contributions:21 commits, 13 pushes in 9 years 11 months
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