Jean-Jaques Quisquater

Name:Jean-Jaques Quisquater

Nationality:Belgian

Achievements:

- Born on January 13, 1945

- Professor Jean-Jaques Quisquater is an expert cryptographer from Universite catholique de Louvain
- Awarded Esorics oustanding rewards 2013

- Recipient of the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics (with Claus P. Schnorr).

-Received the ESORICS Outstanding Research Award in 2013.

- Awarded the Kristian Beckman Award in 2004 by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). 

- Named an IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research) Fellow in 2010 for his contributions to cryptographic hardware, cryptologic education, and service to the IACR.

- Received honorary doctorate the University of Limoges.

-  Expert of cryptography and hardware security, with a career spanning over 50 years.

 - Consultant Ngrave hardware wallet.

- Job as a scientist at Philips Research Lab (MBLE-PRLB) from 1970 to 1991, where he made significant contributions to the design of early smart cards with cryptographic capabilities, including the first RSA smart card and the first smart card with a cryptographic coprocessor.

- Since 1991 professor of cryptography at UCLouvain, where he leads the "UCL Crypto Group.

- Held professorships at various other universities, including ENS (Paris), MIT.

-  PhD in computer science from the University of Paris-Sud.

- Guillou-Quisquater (GQ) Cryptosystem: He is the co-inventor of the Guillou-Quisquater (GQ) cryptosystem, a well-known identification scheme used globally.

- Extensive work on smart cards, including side-channel attacks and counter-measures.

- Involved in developing concepts akin to blockchain technology in the 1990s. 

-In 1996, he worked on a project called Timesec with Stuart Haber, which aimed to introduce standards for secure digital time using cryptographic hash functions for timestamping. Their work, particularly "Design of a secure timestamping service with minimal trust requirements," is notably the second reference listed in Satoshi Nakamoto's  Bitcoin whitepaper Reference 2

- Fundamental contributions to cryptographic hardware.

- Ppublished approximately 200 papers and holds over 20 patents in the field of cryptography.

- February 2014,  his personal computer was hacked, with the same hacking technique used at the Belgian telecom provider Belgacom. This incident was linked by some reports to the NSA hacking scandal,. Quisquater's computer was infected with malware after clicking a bogus invitation, allowing intruders to monitor his digital movements.

 Bitcoin whitepaper Reference 2: H. Massias, X.S. Avila, and J.-J. Quisquater, "Design of a secure timestamping service with minimal trust requirements," In 20th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, May 1999. 

 

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