About Jacques Stern
Born 1949. Jacques Stern is a French cryptologist, computer scientist, mathematician, university teacher and researcher.
Jacques Stern (born 21 August 1949) 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.
Awards Knight of the Légion d'honneur recipient 2005 CNRS Silver Medal IACR Fellow, 2005 2006 CNRS Gold medal 2007 RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics
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Who is Jacques Stern?
French cryptographer
When was Jacques Stern born?
Jacques Stern was born on 21 August 1949 in Paris.
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Jacques Stern is a cryptologist, computer scientist, mathematician, university teacher and researcher.
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Jacques Stern is French.
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