Benny Chor
Benny Chor | |
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בני שור | |
| Born | December 23, 1956 |
| Died | June 10, 2021 (aged 64) |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BSc, MSc) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Known for | Research in cryptography, traitor tracing, randomness extractors, private information retrieval, RSA encryption, secret sharing, distributed shared-memory consensus, gene expression data patterns |
| Awards | ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (1985) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science Cryptography |
| Institutions | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Tel Aviv University |
| Doctoral advisor | Ron Rivest |
Ben-Zion "Benny" Chor (Hebrew: בני שור; 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.