Universitaire

Benny Chor

Israeli computer scientist

Vie: 1956 – 2021
Né(e) le: 1956
Décédé(e) le: 2021
Nationalité: Israël

Ben-Zion "Benny" Chor was an Israeli computer scientist. He was known for his research in cryptography, including traitor tracing, randomness extractors, private information retrieval, the security level and single-bit security of RSA encryption, and secret sharing. Beyond cryptography, he also made important contributions in distributed shared-memory consensus and in the discovery of patterns in gene expression data.