Jacques Stern (born 21 August 1949) is a
cryptographer
Cryptography, or cryptology (from grc, , translit=kryptós "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or ''-logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adver ...
, currently a professor at the
École Normale Supérieure
École may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, S ...
. 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 In cryptography, the Pointcheval–Stern signature algorithm is a digital signature scheme based on the closely related ElGamal signature scheme. It changes the ElGamal scheme slightly to produce an algorithm which has been proven secure in a stron ...
, 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
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...
recipient
* 2005
CNRS Silver Medal
The CNRS Silver Medal is a scientific award given every year to about fifteen researchers by the French National Centre for Scientific Research
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherch ...
*
IACR Fellow, 2005
* 2006
CNRS Gold medal
* 2007
RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics
References
External links
*
Modern cryptographers
Public-key cryptographers
Living people
1949 births
French cryptographers
International Association for Cryptologic Research fellows
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