Claude Crépeau, McGill University
QuantumWorks Researcher
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Claude Crépeau is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University. He received his Master's degree from the University of Montreal in 1986 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science, focusing on cryptography, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Université Paris-Sud and a Research Assistant at l'École Normale Supérieure in Paris before joining the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Montreal as a faculty member in 1994. He moved to McGill in 1998, and became a Fellow in CIAR's Quantum Information Processing Program in 2003.
Professor Crépeau's research is mainly concerned with "cryptographic protocols": techniques for processing confidential data by several users that do not trust each other. He also has broad interests in the field of cryptography, most notably in encryption schemes, digital signatures, identification schemes, "cryptographically strong" generation of pseudo-random numbers, and "zero-knowledge" proofs.