Éric Brier is a French

cryptographer Cryptography, or cryptology (from "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or '' -logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adversarial behavior. More gen ...

whose surname has been given to the Brier number and,

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ically with his colleagues Thomas Peyrin and

Jacques Stern 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 ...

, the (since deprecated)

Format-preserving encryption In cryptography, format-preserving encryption (FPE), refers to encrypting in such a way that the output (the ciphertext) is in the same format as the input (the plaintext). The meaning of "format" varies. Typically only finite sets of characters a ...

standard ''BPS'', more formally known as FFP3. He has also given his name to the Brier- Joye ladder. He has worked for the French military procurement agency DGA, at

Gemplus Gemalto was an international digital security company providing software applications, secure personal devices such as smart cards and tokens, e-wallets and managed services. It was formed in June 2006 by the merger of two companies, Axalto and ...

in the field of

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as a white-hat hacker, and similarly at

Gemalto Gemalto was an international digital security company providing software applications, secure personal devices such as smart cards and tokens, e-wallets and managed services. It was formed in June 2006 by the merger of two companies, Axalto and ...

and

Ingenico Ingenico is a French merchant services technology company, that facilitates secure Electronic Funds Transfer, electronic transactions. The company expanded as a manufacturer of point of sale (POS) payment terminals to also include complete mercha ...

. He has been employed at the

Thales Group Thales S.A., Trade name, trading as Thales Group (), is a French multinational corporation, multinational aerospace and defence industry, defence corporation specializing in electronics. It designs, develops and manufactures a wide variety of aer ...

since July 2020, working largely on

quantum cryptography Quantum cryptography is the science of exploiting quantum mechanical properties to perform cryptographic tasks. The best known example of quantum cryptography is quantum key distribution, which offers an information-theoretically secure soluti ...

and

NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization is a program and competition by NIST to update their standards to include post-quantum cryptography. It was announced at PQCrypto 2016. 23 signature schemes and 59 encryption/ KEM schemes were submitted by ...

As Chief Technology Officer his team's signature-signing scheme

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was selected as a standard under the aegis of

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after a rigorous six-year competition His educational career is as follows:

École Polytechnique (, ; also known as Polytechnique or l'X ) is a ''grande école'' located in Palaiseau, France. It specializes in science and engineering and is a founding member of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris. The school was founded in 1794 by mat ...

Engineer (Physics, Mathematics) 19921995

Aix-Marseille University Aix-Marseille University (AMU; ; formally incorporated as ) is a Public university, public research university located in the Provence region of southern France. It was founded in 1409 when Louis II of Anjou, List of rulers of Provence, Count of ...

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(Discrete Mathematics) 20012002

ENSTA Paris The ENSTA Paris, officially École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées (; ), is a French graduate school of engineering (''école d'ingénieurs''). Founded in 1741, it is the oldest ''grande école'' in France. It is located in Palaisea ...

Engineer (Physics, Computer Science) 19951997 Classe préparatoire Nancy 1990 The author of 48 papers, Brier's

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is 12. He is based in Gennevilliers, France.

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