Jean-Luc Watson

Jean-Luc Watson is a research scientist in the Security and Privacy Research group at NVIDIA. His research aims to make accelerated applications more private and secure by working at the intersection of applied cryptography and systems design. Previously, he completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, where he focused on GPU-based secure computation as well as privacy-first protocols for embedded systems.
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Trustworthy AI / Cybersecurity

Building Faster Cryptography with Carryless Multiplication in NVIDIA CUDA 13.3 

For over fifteen years, x86 CPUs have shipped with a dedicated hardware instruction for carryless multiplication. It’s a small but stubborn primitive that... 9 MIN READ