David Naccache

David Naccache is a cryptographer, currently a professor at the École normale supérieure and a member of its Computer Laboratory. He was previously a professor at Panthéon-Assas University. He received his Ph.D. in 1995 from the École nationale supérieure des télécommunications. Naccache's most notable work is in public-key cryptography, including the cryptanalysis of digital signature schemes. Together with Jacques Stern he designed the similarly named but very distinct Naccache-Stern cryptosystem and Naccache-Stern knapsack cryptosystem.

David Naccache (2011)

Biography

In 2004 David Naccache and Claire Whelan, then employed by Gemplus International, used image processing techniques to uncover redacted information from the declassified 6 August 2001 President's Daily Brief Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US. They also demonstrated how the same process could be applied to other redacted documents.[1]

Naccache is also a visiting professor and researcher at the Information Security Group of Royal Holloway, University of London.[2]

Awards

In 2020 Naccache was listed as a Fellow of the IACR, the International Association for Cryptologic Research, "for significant contributions to applied cryptography in industry and academia, and for the service to the IACR."

gollark: What if I use orbital mind control lasers/antimemetics to make everyone forget about someone THEN kill them?
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gollark: So you can kill people without living family? Fun!
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References
  1. Markoff, John (10 May 2004). "Illuminating Blacked-Out Words". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 6, 2009. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
  2. "Information Security Staff Directory". Information Security Group. Retrieved 2019-05-17.


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