Nicolas Courtois, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Nicolas Courtois

French and British cryptographer

Date of Birth: 14-Nov-1971

Place of Birth: Lębork, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Profession: engineer, cryptographer

Nationality: Poland, France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Nicolas Tadeusz Courtois (born 14 November 1971) is a cryptographer, a senior lecturer in computer science at University College London.Courtois was one of the co-authors of both the XSL attack against block ciphers such as the Advanced Encryption Standard and the XL system for solving systems of algebraic equations, used in the attack.
Other cryptographic results of Courtois include algebraic attacks on stream ciphers, attacks on the KeeLoq and Hitag 2 systems used for remote keyless automobile entry systems, and an analysis of cryptographic weaknesses in public transit smart cards including the London Underground Oyster card and the Dutch OV-chipkaart.
More recently, he has written about cryptocurrency.Courtois graduated from University of Paris VI: Pierre et Marie Curie, where he got his doctoral degree in cryptography.