French cryptographerFor the French politician, see Jacques Stern (politician).

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 crypt*ysis 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 crypt*ysis 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

References

External links

• Jacques Stern at the Mathematics Genealogy Project