Harry Halpin

Harry Halpin is the co-founder and CEO of Nym Technologies, the company behind the Nym mixnet and NymVPN, which protect internet traffic metadata against mass surveillance by routing packets through a decentralized network of mix nodes. Before founding Nym, he was a senior research scientist at MIT, where he led the standardization of the Web Cryptography API across browsers, and a researcher at Inria de Paris working on socio-technical systems and privacy. He holds a PhD in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh and has taught cryptocurrency at the American University of Beirut. Nym grew out of European Commission funded privacy research after the Snowden revelations, drew contributions from figures such as Chelsea Manning, and launched its live network in 2022 with Edward Snowden as keynote speaker.

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