Benny Chor
Israeli computer scientist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ben-Zion (Benny) Chor (23 December 1956 – 10 June 2021) was an Israeli computer scientist. He was known for his research in cryptography, including traitor tracing, randomness extractors, private information retrieval, the security level and single-bit security of RSA encryption, and secret sharing. Beyond cryptography, he also made important contributions in distributed shared-memory consensus and in the discovery of patterns in gene expression data.[1][2][3]
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Ben-Zion (Benny) Chor | |
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Born | (1956-12-23)December 23, 1956 |
Died | June 10, 2021(2021-06-10) (aged 64) |
Nationality | Israeli |
Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (B.Sc., M.Sc.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.) |
Known for | Research in cryptography, traitor tracing, randomness extractors, private information retrieval, RSA encryption, secret sharing, distributed shared-memory consensus, gene expression data patterns |
Awards | ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (1985) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science, Cryptography |
Institutions | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Tel Aviv University |
Doctoral advisor | Ron Rivest |
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