Éric Brier is a French cryptographer whose surname has been given to the Brier number and, acronymically with his colleagues Thomas Peyrin and Jacques Stern, the (since deprecated) Format-preserving encryption 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 in the field of smart cards as a white-hat hacker, and similarly at Gemalto and Ingenico. He has been employed at the Thales Group since July 2020, working largely on quantum cryptography and NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization As Chief Technology Officer his team's signature-signing scheme Falcon was selected as a standard under the aegis of NIST after a rigorous six-year competition
His educational career is as follows:
École Polytechnique Engineer (Physics, Mathematics)
19921995 Aix-Marseille University DEA (Discrete Mathematics)
20012002 ENSTA Paris Engineer (Physics, Computer Science)
19951997 Classe préparatoire Nancy 1990
The author of 48 papers, Brier's h-index is 12.
He is based in Gennevilliers, France.
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