2026 David Pointcheval: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	70	1834	1775	22	21	291	26875

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in France Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in France Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in France Leader Award

Overview

David Pointcheval is affiliated with the École Normale Supérieure in France. Their research primarily falls within the field of Computer Science, encompassing 118 publications. This work spans multiple subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Information Systems, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Computer Networks and Communications.

The main topics of their scholarly contributions include:

Cryptography and Data Security
Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Cryptographic Implementations and Security
Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption
Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
Cloud Data Security Solutions

David Pointcheval has authored several recent papers, among them:

AriaNN: Low-Interaction Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning via Function Secret Sharing, 2022, published in DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
Traceable constant-size multi-authority credentials, 2023, published in Information and Computation
AriaNN: Low-Interaction Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning via Function Secret Sharing, 2021, published in Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Optimized Homomorphic Evaluation of Boolean Functions, 2024, published in IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
Decentralized Multi-Client Functional Encryption with Strong Security, 2024, published in IACR Communications in Cryptology

They have frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including:

Duong Hieu Phan
Baptiste Cottier
Chloé Hébant
Ky Nguyen
Théo Ryffel

Their publications appear regularly in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
IACR Communications in Cryptology
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems

David Pointcheval has also contributed to academic books, including one published by Springer Science+Business Media titled Progress in Cryptology - AFRICACRYPT 2023.

Best Publications

Security Arguments for Digital Signatures and Blind Signatures

David Pointcheval;Jacques Stern

2857
Citations
Relations Among Notions of Security for Public-Key Encryption Schemes

Mihir Bellare;Anand Desai;David Pointcheval;David Pointcheval;Phillip Rogaway

2174
Citations
Authenticated Key Exchange Secure Against Dictionary Attacks.

Mihir Bellare;David Pointcheval;Phillip Rogaway

1974
Citations
Security proofs for signature schemes

David Pointcheval;Jacques Stern

1508
Citations
Password-Based authenticated key exchange in the three-party setting

Michel Abdalla;Pierre-Alain Fouque;David Pointcheval

991
Citations
The Gap-Problems: A New Class of Problems for the Security of Cryptographic Schemes

Tatsuaki Okamoto;David Pointcheval

635
Citations
Provably secure authenticated group Diffie-Hellman key exchange

Emmanuel Bresson;Olivier Chevassut;David Pointcheval

629
Citations
Dynamic Group Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange under standard assumptions

Emmanuel Bresson;Olivier Chevassut;David Pointcheval

621
Citations
Key-Privacy in Public-Key Encryption

Mihir Bellare;Alexandra Boldyreva;Anand Desai;David Pointcheval

619
Citations
Provably authenticated group Diffie-Hellman key exchange

Emmanuel Bresson;Olivier Chevassut;David Pointcheval;Jean-Jacques Quisquater

557
Citations
The One-More-RSA-Inversion Problems and the Security of Chaum's Blind Signature Scheme

Mihir Bellare;Chanathip Namprempre;David Pointcheval;Michael Semanko

491
Citations
Simple password-based encrypted key exchange protocols

Michel Abdalla;David Pointcheval

444
Citations
Practical multi-candidate election system

Olivier Baudron;Pierre-Alain Fouque;David Pointcheval;Jacques Stern

428
Citations
A Simple Public-Key Cryptosystem with a Double Trapdoor Decryption Mechanism and Its Applications

Emmanuel Bresson;Dario Catalano;David Pointcheval

402
Citations
Provably Secure Blind Signature Schemes

David Pointcheval;Jacques Stern

397
Citations
Simple Functional Encryption Schemes for Inner Products

Michel Abdalla;Florian Bourse;Angelo De Caro;David Pointcheval

396
Citations
Fully collusion secure dynamic broadcast encryption with constant-size ciphertexts or decryption keys

Cécile Delerablée;Pascal Paillier;David Pointcheval

378
Citations
RSA-OAEP Is Secure under the RSA Assumption

Eiichiro Fujisaki;Tatsuaki Okamoto;David Pointcheval;Jacques Stern

370
Citations
REACT: Rapid Enhanced-Security Asymmetric Cryptosystem Transform

Tatsuaki Okamoto;David Pointcheval

352
Citations
Provably Authenticated Group Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange - The Dynamic Case

Emmanuel Bresson;Olivier Chevassut;Olivier Chevassut;David Pointcheval

340
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michel Abdalla École Normale Supérieure

Damien Vergnaud Institut Universitaire de France

Pierre-Alain Fouque University of Rennes

Jacques Stern École Normale Supérieure

Mihir Bellare University of California, San Diego

David Naccache École Normale Supérieure

Phong Q. Nguyen French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

Tatsuaki Okamoto NTT (Japan)

Dario Catalano University of Catania

Phillip Rogaway University of California, Davis

External Links

Personal website of David Pointcheval Google Scholar page

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