David Hook

David has been working on Cryptography APIs and secure protocols since the mid-1990s and in IT and open-source since the mid-1980s. He is a founder and still active committer of the Legion of the Bouncy Castle Cryptography project which began in the year 2000 and provides APIs in Java, C#, and Kotlin. David founded Crypto Workshop, now part of Keyfactor, in 2012 in order to better support the Bouncy Castle APIs and its user community. Shortly after, he led the work on the FIPS certification of the Bouncy Castle APIs, resulting in their first certifications in 2016. His deep interest is in providing tools to simplify the development of solutions that make use of cryptography and secure protocols, with an emphasis on standards-based approaches. He is based in Melbourne, Australia.

David is also the author of two books: “Java Cryptography: Tools and Techniques” and “Beginning Cryptography with Java.”