About us

At krypt.co we’re building the next generation of mobile-based authentication. Our vision is that authentication should be based on strong cryptography.

Public key cryptography has existed for almost 40 years but it’s barely used to authenticate people. Most people cannot store a long private key in their head nor can they compute digital signatures on the fly. Therefore, we need to store the private key somewhere. It has to be accessible but also kept a secret. At krypt.co we’re tackling this very problem and we believe the smartphone is core to the solution.

Our product Krypton is the first phone-based U2F and WebAuthn authenticator that provides users on the web with easy-to-use, unphishable, zero-touch multi-factor authentication.

Founding team

Alex Grinman
Co-founder / CEO / Developer
Alex enjoys designing cryptographic protocols and building secure systems. At MIT (B.S., M.Eng.) he studied Mathematics and Computer Science with a focus in applied cryptography and cybersecurity. Alex has also been developing iOS applications since iOS 3.
Kevin King
Co-founder / CTO / Developer
Kevin is passionate about making it easy for everyone to use strong cryptography. He studied Computer Science at MIT (B.S., M.Eng.) concentrating in systems engineering and applied cryptography. Before MIT, Kevin created popular Android apps and now in his spare time he dabbles in audio software and rust.
David Gifford
Co-founder / Chief Scientist
David is a professor of computer science at MIT. He co-founded three companies: Open Market (Internet commerce), Sightpath (Internet content delivery, acquired by CISCO), and the Computational Biology Company (acquired by Agilent Technologies).

Our advisors

Shafi Goldwasser
Cryptography
Adam Chlipala
Provable Software
Petr Kaplunovich
UX Specialist