Christian Cachin is a Swiss cryptographer and professor of computer science at the

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, Switzerland. In 2000 he founded the Cryptology ePrint Archive, an

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repository for research in cryptology. He was elected as president of the

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for 2014-2016 and for 2017-2019. In 2015 he was named

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and ot ...

(IEEE) for "contributions to steganography and secure distributed systems". He was elected as an

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in 2019 "for contributions to secure distributed computing and cryptographic protocols". In 2022 he was also named a Fellow of the

for "far-reaching contributions in the fields of cryptography and distributed systems, and for outstanding service to the IACR".

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