Christian Cachin

{{Short description|Swiss cryptographer and computer scientist}} '''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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eprint.iacr.org/about.html|title=About the Cryptology ePrint Archive}}</ref>

He was elected as president of the International Association for Cryptologic Research for 2014-2016 and for 2017-2019. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.iacr.org/elections/2013/|title=IACR elections 2013}},</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.iacr.org/elections/2016/|title=IACR elections 2016}}</ref> In 2015 he was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for "contributions to steganography and secure distributed systems".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://services27.ieee.org/fellowsdirectory/keywordsearch.html?keyword=cachin|website=IEEE Fellows Directory |title=IEEE Fellows Directory - Search Results }}</ref> He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to secure distributed computing and cryptographic protocols".<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.acm.org/media-center/2019/december/fellows-2019|title=2019 ACM Fellows Recognized for Far-Reaching Accomplishments that Define the Digital Age|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|accessdate=2019-12-11}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://iacr.org/fellows/2022/cachin.html|title=Christian Cachin, 2022 IACR Fellow|website=IACR}}</ref>

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==External links== *[https://crypto.unibe.ch/cc/ Personal home page] *[http://dblp.org/pers/c/Cachin:Christian DBLP Bibliography Page]

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