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David Pointcheval publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Pointcheval sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 291 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

David Pointcheval D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Pointcheval sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 70 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

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

  • Relations Among Notions of Security for Public-Key Encryption Schemes

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

  • Authenticated Key Exchange Secure Against Dictionary Attacks.

    Mihir Bellare;David Pointcheval;Phillip Rogaway

  • Security proofs for signature schemes

    David Pointcheval;Jacques Stern

  • Password-Based authenticated key exchange in the three-party setting

    Michel Abdalla;Pierre-Alain Fouque;David Pointcheval

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

    Tatsuaki Okamoto;David Pointcheval

  • Provably secure authenticated group Diffie-Hellman key exchange

    Emmanuel Bresson;Olivier Chevassut;David Pointcheval

  • Dynamic Group Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange under standard assumptions

    Emmanuel Bresson;Olivier Chevassut;David Pointcheval

  • Key-Privacy in Public-Key Encryption

    Mihir Bellare;Alexandra Boldyreva;Anand Desai;David Pointcheval

  • Provably authenticated group Diffie-Hellman key exchange

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

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

    Mihir Bellare;Chanathip Namprempre;David Pointcheval;Michael Semanko

  • Simple password-based encrypted key exchange protocols

    Michel Abdalla;David Pointcheval

  • Practical multi-candidate election system

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

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

    Emmanuel Bresson;Dario Catalano;David Pointcheval

  • Provably Secure Blind Signature Schemes

    David Pointcheval;Jacques Stern

  • Simple Functional Encryption Schemes for Inner Products

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

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

    Cécile Delerablée;Pascal Paillier;David Pointcheval

  • RSA-OAEP Is Secure under the RSA Assumption

    Eiichiro Fujisaki;Tatsuaki Okamoto;David Pointcheval;Jacques Stern

  • REACT: Rapid Enhanced-Security Asymmetric Cryptosystem Transform

    Tatsuaki Okamoto;David Pointcheval

  • Provably Authenticated Group Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange - The Dynamic Case

    Emmanuel Bresson;Olivier Chevassut;Olivier Chevassut;David Pointcheval

Frequent Co-Authors

Michel Abdalla
Michel Abdalla École Normale Supérieure
Damien Vergnaud
Damien Vergnaud Institut Universitaire de France
Pierre-Alain Fouque
Pierre-Alain Fouque University of Rennes
Jacques Stern
Jacques Stern École Normale Supérieure
Mihir Bellare
Mihir Bellare University of California, San Diego
David Naccache
David Naccache École Normale Supérieure
Phong Q. Nguyen
Phong Q. Nguyen French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
Tatsuaki Okamoto
Tatsuaki Okamoto NTT (Japan)
Dario Catalano
Dario Catalano University of Catania
Phillip Rogaway
Phillip Rogaway University of California, Davis

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