Awards

IACR Fellow including for being the founder of IACR [PDF]
STOC (ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory) 30 year best paper test of time award for “Multiparty Unconditionally Secure Protocols” paper. [PDF]

(30 years) David Chaum, Claude Crépeau, and Ivan Damgård, “Multiparty unconditionally secure protocols”, STOC 1988.

LATE LAST NOVEMBER, David Chaum received the Information Technology European Award for 1995. The prize, given for DigiCash’s ecash technology, consisted of a trophy development of anonymous paymnet schemes that are becoming increasingly popular in Europe for everything from online commerce to highway toll systems.
1995 Information Technology European Award ($250,000 prize). [PDF]
RSA Excellence in Mathematics prize (2010). [PDF]
Dijkstra fellowship [PDF]

Honorary Consensus 2022 MetaGala Award  (awarded at the 2022 Consensus conference.)

  • Honorary Doctorate

Dear Professor Chaum,

I hope you’re well. I’m writing as the Dean of the Faculty of Informatics of USI (Università della Svizzera italiana), Switzerland, about the announcement of your Honorary Doctorate.

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