The Password Hashing Competition (PHC) is starting! We will present the project and the submissions received from the community earlier this year. All candidate algorithms will be reviewed, and we'll discuss the evaluation criteria that we plan to consider in our selection of finalists, which is planned for Q3 2014. Goals of this talk are to elicit feedback from the community, as well as to encourage research and technical contributions (regarding cracking techniques, server-side implementations, bruteforce implementations, etc.). Jean-Philippe Aumasson is principal cryptographer at Kudelski Security, Switzerland, and holds a PhD in cryptography from EPFL. He is known for designing the cryptographic functions BLAKE (one of 5 SHA-3 finalists), SipHash (OpenDNS, Perl, Ruby, etc.), BLAKE2 (Pcompress, WinRAR, etc.). He authored more than 30 research articles in the field of cryptography and cryptanalysis, and talked at security cons including Black Hat and and CCC. In 2013 he initiated the Cryptography Coding Standard (https://cryptocoding.net) and the Password Hashing Competition (https://password-hashing.net), which are open, collaborative projects to improve the overall state of security.