Jean-Jacques Quisquater (born 13 January 1945) is a Belgian cryptographer and a professor at
University of Louvain (UCLouvain). He received, with
Claus P. Schnorr, the
RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics
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Organizations Academia and education
* Rabbinical Seminary of America, a yeshiva in New York City
*Regional Science Association International (formerly the Regional Science Association), a US-based learned society
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in 2013, and the ESORICS Outstanding Research Award 2013.
On Saturday, 1 February 2014, Flemish public news agency
VRT reported that about 6 months earlier, Quisquater's personal computer had been hacked. Since the same hacking technique was used at Belgium's public/private telecom provider
Belgacom
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, VRT makes links to the
NSA hacking scandal. Still according to VRT, a week before the article went out Edward Snowden warned about the NSA also targeting companies and private persons, in an interview with German television channel
ARD. Belgian newspaper
De Standaard mentions
GCHQ
Government Communications Headquarters, commonly known as GCHQ, is an intelligence and security organisation responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance (IA) to the government and armed forces of the Uni ...
and says the authorities are investigating the case.
Reporters write Quisquater's computer was infected with
malware after clicking a
bogus invitation to join a social network—"that allowed the intruders to follow all of the professor's digital movements, including his work for international conferences on
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References
External links
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Quisquater's page UCLouvain
1945 births
Living people
Belgian cryptographers
International Association for Cryptologic Research fellows
Modern cryptographers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Université catholique de Louvain faculty
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