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Our mission is to help companies protect their users’ privacy
Manifesto
The internet is no longer safe. From data breaches to unlawful surveillance, not a single day passes without a major online service provider getting hacked, exposing our personal data in ways that have become detrimental to ourselves and our families.

We believe the only way forward is to make the internet encrypted end-to-end: our data should remain encrypted, while it is transmitted, while it is stored, and while it is processed, no matter what we do online. We call this the ZeroTrust Internet.

At Zama, we build homomorphic encryption solutions to help companies protect their users’ privacy.
What we believe in
Privacy: Protected at all costs
Pioneers: Building the unbelievable
Openness: The future will be built together
Optimism: Striving toward the best for all
Excellence: Contributing to world-class research
Practical: Technology should be friendly.
Pascal Paillier, PhD – CTO
Rand Hindi, PhD – CEO
Ilaria Chillotti, PhD – Researcher
Pascal is a researcher and entrepreneur in cryptography, and the CTO at Zama. He has spent the past 25 years inventing new cryptographic techniques for critical industries. From homomorphic encryption to whitebox crypto, Pascal has contributed groundbreaking research in academic and corporate environments.

He is a member of the IACR and ISO, where he contributes to standardization efforts for cryptography. Pascal has authored over 50 academic papers, received “Best Paper Award” at Asiacrypt 2005, and is one of the most widely cited author in homomorphic encryption. Prior to Zama, Pascal was CEO at CryptoExperts and head of Cryptography Innovation at Gemalto. He holds a PhD in cryptography from Telecom Paris.
Rand is an entrepreneur and investor in AI and Privacy. He is the CEO at Zama. Rand started coding at the age of 10, founded a Social Network at 14 and a web agency at 15 before getting into Machine Learning at 18 and starting a PhD at 21. He then created Snips, the first edge-based, private by design voice solution for OEMs, which was then acquired by Sonos.

He has been elected as a TR35 by the MIT Technology Review, as a “30 under 30” by Forbes, is a lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris and an advisor to multiple companies. He was previously a member of the French Digital Council where he focused on AI and Privacy issues. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a PhD in Bioinformatics from University College London (UCL), as well as two graduate degrees from Singularity University in Silicon Valley and THNK in Amsterdam.
Ilaria is a researcher in cryptography, specializing in homomorphic encryption. Fascinated by enigmas and secrets, she studied mathematics at a young age in order to get closer to cryptography. She notably co-authored TFHE, currently one of the fastest homomorphic encryption scheme in the world. She is the author of several publications, and winner of the “Best Paper Awards” at Asiacrypt 2016 as well as the iDASH competition in 2019.

Before joining Zama, Ilaria was at Microsoft Research and then in postdoc at KU Leuven. She holds a BSc from Caligari University, a MSc from Joseph Fourrier University in Grenoble, and a PhD from Versailles Paris-Saclay.
Rand Hindi, PhD - CEO
Pascal Paillier, PhD - CTO
Marc Joye, PhD - Chief Scientist
Ilaria Chillotti, PhD - Researcher
Benoit Chevallier, PhD - Researcher
Damien Ligier, PhD - Researcher
Samuel Tap - PhD candidate
Orel Cosseron - PhD candidate
Joao Justi - Engineer
Clement Danjou - Engineer
Mayeul de Bellabre - Engineer
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Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.If two parties have some sort of dealings, then each has a memory of their interaction. Each party can speak about their own memory of this; how could anyone prevent it? One could pass laws against it, but the freedom of speech, even more than privacy, is fundamental to an open society; we seek not to restrict any speech at all. If many parties speak together in the same forum, each can speak to all the others and aggregate together knowledge about individuals and other parties. The power of electronic communications has enabled such group speech, and it will not go away merely because we might want it to.Since we desire privacy, we must ensure that each party to a transaction have knowledge only of that which is directly necessary for that transaction. Since any information can be spoken of, we must ensure that we reveal as little as possible. In most cases personal identity is not salient. When I purchase a magazine at a store and hand cash to the clerk, there is no need to know who I am. When I ask my electronic mail provider to send and receive messages, my provider need not know to whom I am speaking or what I am saying or what others are saying to me; my provider only need know how to get the message there and how much I owe them in fees. When my identity is revealed by the underlying mechanism of the transaction, I have no privacy. I cannot here selectively reveal myself; I must always reveal myself.Therefore, privacy in an open society requires anonymous transaction systems. Until now, cash has been the primary such system. An anonymous transaction system is not a secret transaction system. An anonymous system empowers individuals to reveal their identity when desired and only when desired; this is the essence of privacy.Privacy in an open society also requires cryptography. If I say something, I want it heard only by those for whom I intend it. If the content of my speech is available to the world, I have no privacy. To encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy, and to encrypt with weak cryptography is to indicate not too much desire for privacy. Furthermore, to reveal one's identity with assurance when the default is anonymity requires the cryptographic signature. We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence. It is to their advantage to speak of us, and we should expect that they will speak. To try to prevent their speech is to fight against the realities of information. Information does not just want to be free, it longs to be free. Information expands to fill the available storage space. Information is Rumor's younger, stronger cousin; Information is fleeter of foot, has more eyes, knows more, and understands less than Rumor.We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place. People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes, and couriers. The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do.We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write with our goals.The Cypherpunks are actively engaged in making the networks safer for privacy. Let us proceed together apace.Onward.Eric Hughes 9 March 1993 People must come and together deploy these systems for the common good. Privacy only extends so far as the cooperation of one's fellows in society. We the Cypherpunks seek your questions and your concerns and hope we may engage you so that we do not deceive ourselves. We will not, however, be moved out of our course because some may disagree with our goals.The Cypherpunks are actively engaged in making the networks safer for privacy.
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