Jacques Stern, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jacques Stern

French cryptographer

Date of Birth: 21-Aug-1949

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Profession: computer scientist, mathematician, university teacher, cryptologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Jacques Stern (born 21 August 1949) is a cryptographer, currently a professor at the École Normale Supérieure, where he is Director of the Computer Science Laboratory.
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.