# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacques-stern
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:44:34.599Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacques-stern"
name: "Jacques Stern"
slug: "jacques-stern"
description: "Jacques Stern is a cryptographer, currently a professor at the École Normale Supérieure. He received the 2006 CNRS Gold medal. His notable work includes the cryptanalysis of numerous encryption and signature schemes, the design of the Pointcheval–Stern signature algorithm, the Naccache–Stern cryptosystem and Naccache–Stern knapsack cryptosystem, and the block ciphers CS-Cipher, DFC, and xmx. He also contributed to the cryptanalysis of the SFLASH signature scheme."
tagline: "French cryptographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jacques_Stern_p1140541.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1949-08-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.59
  momentum:             4.909090909090907
  historical:           5.675486666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Stern_(Kryptologe)"
    title: "Jacques Stern (Kryptologe)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86_(%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B0_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%8A)"
    title: "جاك ستيرن (أستاذ جامعي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83_%D8%B4%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "جاك شتيرن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Stern"
    title: "Jacques Stern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Stern_(cryptographer)"
    title: "Jacques Stern (cryptographer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Stern_(cryptologue)"
    title: "Jacques Stern (cryptologue)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93087"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump