Benny Chor

Benny Chor
Born(1956-12-23)December 23, 1956
DiedJune 10, 2021(2021-06-10) (aged 64)
NationalityIsraeli
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem (BSc, MSc)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Known forResearch in cryptography, traitor tracing, randomness extractors, private information retrieval, RSA encryption, secret sharing, distributed shared-memory consensus, gene expression data patterns
AwardsACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (1985)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Cryptography
InstitutionsTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology
Tel Aviv University
Doctoral advisorRon Rivest

Ben-Zion "Benny" Chor (23 December 1956 – 10 June 2021) 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.[1][2][3]

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