Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nicolas Courtois (2nd nomination)


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The result was   keep. Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:42, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Nicolas Courtois
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Known mostly for the XSL attack. A redirect seems enough to me. ospalh (talk) 12:13, 20 December 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:05, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
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 * Keep. Google scholar citation counts of 457, 446, 342, 133, 99, etc looks like a pass of WP:PROF to me, and the media attention to his multiple cryptographic accomplishments (now added to the article, which previously focused only on XSL) looks like a pass of both WP:PROF#C7 and WP:GNG. —David Eppstein (talk) 04:50, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep as above. Xxanthippe (talk) 06:23, 23 December 2010 (UTC).
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Keep. Though not one of the big ones, Nicolas Courtois is a well-known figure in cryptography. He not only published notable papers on algebraic attacks (of which the XSL is the most hyped one), but also made significant contributions to multi-variate cryptography. Nageh (talk) 14:15, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
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