Éric Brier
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Éric Brier is a French cryptographer whose surname has been given to the Brier number[1][2] and, acronymically with his colleagues Thomas Peyrin and Jacques Stern, the (since deprecated) Format-preserving encryption standard BPS, more formally known as FFP3.[3][4][5][6] He has also given his name to the Brier-Joye ladder.[7][8]
He has worked for the French military procurement agency DGA, at Gemplus in the field of smart cards as a white-hat hacker, and similarly at Gemalto and Ingenico.[9] He has been employed at the Thales Group[10] since July 2020, working largely on quantum cryptography and NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization[11] As Chief Technology Officer his team's signature-signing scheme Falcon was selected as a standard under the aegis of NIST after a rigorous six-year competition[12][13][14][15]
His educational career is as follows:[16]
École Polytechnique Engineer (Physics, Mathematics)
1992—1995 Aix-Marseille University DEA (Discrete Mathematics)
2001—2002 ENSTA Paris Engineer (Physics, Computer Science)
1995—1997 Classe préparatoire Nancy 1990
The author of 48 papers,[17][18] Brier's h-index is 12.[19]
He is based in Gennevilliers, France.
