Christian Cachin is a Swiss cryptographer and professor of computer science at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

In 2000 he founded the Cryptology ePrint Archive, an eprint repository for research in cryptology.[1]

He was elected as president of the International Association for Cryptologic Research for 2014-2016 and for 2017-2019. [2][3] In 2015 he was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for "contributions to steganography and secure distributed systems".[4] He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to secure distributed computing and cryptographic protocols".[5]. In 2022 he was also named a Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research for "far-reaching contributions in the fields of cryptography and distributed systems, and for outstanding service to the IACR".[6]


References

  1. ↑ "About the Cryptology ePrint Archive".
  2. ↑ "IACR elections 2013".,
  3. ↑ "IACR elections 2016".
  4. ↑ "IEEE Fellows Directory - Search Results". IEEE Fellows Directory.
  5. ↑ 2019 ACM Fellows Recognized for Far-Reaching Accomplishments that Define the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2019-12-11
  6. ↑ "Christian Cachin, 2022 IACR Fellow". IACR.


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