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Jacques Stern

French cryptographer · France · On the map · Academics · Born 1949 · age 77

Jacques Stern is a cryptographer, currently a professor at the École Normale Supérieure. He received the 2006 CNRS Gold medal.

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A life in dates

2006CNRS Gold medalAward2005CNRS silver medalAwardIACR FellowAward2003Lazare-Carnot PrizeAward1949Born21 August 1949

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CNRS Gold medal2006
IACR Fellow2005
CNRS silver medal2005
Lazare-Carnot Prize2003
Officer of the Legion of Honour

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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.

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France
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
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Born 1949 · age 77