Éric Brier is a French cryptographer whose surname has been given to the Brier number[1][2] and, acronymically with his colleagues Thomas Peyrin and Jacques Stern, the (since deprecated) Format-preserving encryption standard BPS, more formally known as FFP3.
[3][4][5][6] He has also given his name to the Brier-Joye ladder.
[7][8] He has worked for the French military procurement agency DGA, at Gemplus in the field of smart cards as a white-hat hacker, and similarly at Gemalto and Ingenico.
[9] He has been employed at the Thales Group[10] since July 2020, working largely on quantum cryptography and NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization[11] As Chief Technology Officer his team's signature-signing scheme Falcon was selected as a standard under the aegis of NIST after a rigorous six-year competition[12][13][14][15] His educational career is as follows:[16] École Polytechnique Engineer (Physics, Mathematics) 1992—1995 Aix-Marseille University DEA (Discrete Mathematics) 2001—2002 ENSTA Paris Engineer (Physics, Computer Science) 1995—1997 Classe préparatoire Nancy 1990 The author of 48 papers,[17][18] Brier's h-index is 12.
[19] He is based in Gennevilliers, France.