INRIA, the French National Institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, has created a new international chair and appointed Professor Raouf Boutaba to hold the position for five years, between 2017 and 2021. During his tenure, Boutaba will visit and collaborate with researchers at the INRIA Nancy – Grand Est research centre in Villers-lès-Nancy and at other INRIA sites in France.
The earliest example of cryptography — the study and practice of techniques to make communications secure — is thought to be a section of nonstandard hieroglyphics that was inscribed on the tomb of Khnumhotep II, an Egyptian nobleman who served pharaoh Amenemhat nearly 4,000 years ago.
