Jacques Stern
French cryptographer
Intro | French cryptographer | |
Places | France | |
is | Cryptologist Computer scientist Mathematician Educator | |
Work field | Academia Mathematics Technology Science | |
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Birth | 21 August 1949, Paris, Île-de-France, France | |
Age | 75 years | |
Star sign | Leo |
Jacques Stern (born 21 August 1949) is a cryptographer, currently a professor at the École Normale Supérieure, where he is Director of the Computer Science Laboratory. 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. Recently a spectacular total break of the SFLASH cryptosystem was discovered by Jacques Stern.