Designers of COMET Mode of Authenticated Encryption

The COMET AEAD scheme is the culmination of a collaboration between the following cryptographers (in alphabetical order):

Shay Gueron, University of Haifa, Israel and Amazon Web Services Inc., Seattle, USA. Email: shay.gueron@gmail.com
Ashwin Jha, Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, India. Email: ashwin.jha1991@gmail.com
Mridul Nandi, Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, India. Email: mridul.nandi@gmail.com