David Nataf

David Nataf, born on June 9 , 1970 in Paris , is a French entrepreneur specializing in cryptography. He graduated from Sceaux Law School , with a specialization in computer criminal law , and is a gemologist certified GIA GG www.lettrerecommandee.com by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) and Gem-A by the Gemmological Association of Great Britain . In 2004 with Christophe Doré, he put the diamond industry on the front page of Le Figaro by publishing on the cover story, "The hidden treasures of Ramat Gan ".
He is married to Esther Nataf and the father of four daughters.
== Cryptography expert ==
David Nataf is the author of books on computer warfare : a book written with three young operational specialists in cybersecurity , “Internet knights and hackers” , then “Computer warfare” which asks in particular the question: "Will we be bandits or Americans?". For Nataf, highlighting a security flaw in an information system should be considered in France and in Europe as a patriotic act, just as it is in China: “pirates ”would they not be in reality the“ new corsairs ”, acting for their country.
He participates, as an expert in the security of information systems (ISS), in the parliamentary missions entrusted by Henri Plagnol, Minister of the Public Service , on the Hyper-Republic and by Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister , on economic intelligence https://www.vie-publique.fr/sites/default/files/rapport/pdf/034000010.pdf . He is a lecturer in front of the auditors of the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale (IHEDN) on the theme of "influence operations" as part of a training course on foreign investigations .
== Fight against Echelon's massive electronic espionage ==
He is one of the first experts with Salamander , of which he is one of the known associates, to have denounced, in 2001, the massive spy system " Echelon " of the United States and its allies of the UKUSA treaty https://cryptome.org/jya/nsa-f83.htm.
He organized the counter-offensive and filed a complaint against Echelon, a world premiere . Nataf establishes the link between massive electronic espionage, technological warfare and organized brain drain .
In a Sunday Times article , Spy Station F83 , he questions the UK's responsibility within the European Union.
David Nataf is heard by the Echelon 1998-2002 committee of the European Parliament https://www.europarl.europa.eu/EPRS/EPRS-Study-538877-Echelon.pdf, stressing that Echelon reveals the European legal inconsistency https://www.ilsa.org/Jessup/Jessup16/Batch%201/getDoc.do.pdf .
In an interview with the Israeli daily YediotAharonot by Ronen Bergman , David Nataf also warns Israel : the same methods of espionage that the United States uses against France and Europe , Big Brother also uses them against Israel.
Nataf takes, in this regard, the example of a French antivirus software equipping French Defense invented by a 17-year-old Franco-Israeli computer scientist who had temporarily established his company in Silicon Valley and was quickly disputed over intellectual property. the software French by associated US , which also reports "Le Figaro" . The attempt to capture failed when a complaint for espionage against the associated US was introduced Nataf lifting the hearing of the President of commercial court , October 8, 1999, the exception "the criminal keeps the civil as it is".
== Defense of French companies against piracy and French hackers ==
Expert consultant to the law firm Jean-Pierre Millet, specializing in delinquency and computer crime , He is known for having participated in the defense of French companies in the defense , aerospace and telecommunications sectors , and even wanting to force France Telecom to secure its networks when the implementing decree on electronic signatures was published .
In France , it is the Legal Director of Research and Studies on Computer Crime (REEF) and are particularly established the first types of offenses and crimes IT and offenders and criminal behavior on cybercrime. In Brussels , he is co-founder of the European Institute for Information Systems Security (IESSI) specializing in best practices in ISS.
At the same time as he advises companies to defend themselves against computer hacking, David Nataf is also known to have defended various “hackers” 1 , , such as “Yoann”, a young 16-year- old hacker who hacked Kelly's base from the US Air Force or even "Frantic", a hacker author of computer intrusion tests having lost his way for a moment in the information system of the FBI. To defend them, Nataf explains how these idealists, sometimes love with a strange culture, chivalry , challenge themselves and multiply the exploits.
Nataf also participated, with a virtuous hacker , in the identification of a security breach on French bank cards in 2001 . The flaw, which concerned the factorization of the 320 byte key on the CP8B0 card, was revealed to GIE Cartes Bancaires.
== Fight against Ransomware ==
David Nataf has developed an analysis grid for Ransomware risk management which is combined according to a particular mix of risk protection / risk pooling by insurance , depending on the business (e-Commerce-centric company, business IS-centric, etc.) and size (large company, mid-cap, SME) ”.
== Crypto entrepreneur ==
David Nataf is the creator in 2001 of the company NextAdvantage that launches before The French Postal , the first electronic registered letter in France . David Nataf is the holder of a WIPO patent . It introduces, among other things, the innovation of the first electronic signature for the general public, "lettrerecommandée.com", as well as the recommended voice .
NextAdvantage later specializes in an end-to-end mastered vertical, electronic churn . The offer is known under the brand “résilier.com” .
== Blockchain and cryptocurrency creator ==
=== Elyatel, digital currency for GSM900 and 4G recharging ===
David Nataf created in 2017 a currency digital using blockchain , "Elya" : first token of telephone digital using blockchain and to recharge a mobile in GSM900 communications and 4G in 100 countries 
=== Creation of AFRO, the first pan-African blockchain and cryptocurrency ===
He co-founded in 2018 the first blockchain and pan-African digital currency tending to the carbon neutrality ⁶, the AFRO .
This innovation 54 was launched in 2017 55 and distributed on a small scale in 2018 https://fr.allafrica.com/stories/201812140739.html .
The AFRO , described as a virtual currency and humanistic , aims to become the " Bitcoin " of Africa http://www.pouvoirsafrique.com/2018/12/17/cryptomonnaies-afro-le-bitcoin-africain/.
Cryptocurrency is promoted by a non-governmental organization , the AFRO foundation , whose head office is established in Geneva, Switzerland .
From a pan-African perspective , the founders of the project aim for the advent of an African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMA), of which AFRO would be the support and which would bring together the countries currently members of the African Union , and which would be administered by an African Central Bank, modeled on the eurozone .
In 2020 and in Ivory Coast , La Poste innovates with a solution letter digital using blockchain the AFRO https://fr.africanews.com/2020/05/20/la-poste-en-cote-divoire-utilise-la-blockchain-l-afro/.
== Publications ==
=== Works ===
Knights of the Internet and hackers , collective work, I read , Pocket, November 2001 ( ISBN 978-2290303443 )
Computer Warfare , Presses de la Renaissance , April 2003 ( ISBN 978-2856169124 )
=== Articles ===
Cryptography and Electronic Commerce of Tomorrow , with Professor Christian Gavalda, UniformLaw Review - Uniform Law Review, 1998 - 2/3
Cryptology , Juris PTT, 1st semester 1999
Echelon system, Electronic espionage of Europe: Under a security pact born during the cold war, Great Britain and the United States would control electronic intelligence to the detriment of the European Union , Expertises, May 1998
Computer and network law: audit on the probative degree of the quality of an author of an electronic document (C.Civ., Art. 1316-1 nv , Lamy, Edition May 2001
The hidden treasures of RamatGan , with Christophe Doré, Figaro Magazine , December 18, 2004.
== Related articles ==
* Cryptography
* Cryptocurrency
* AFRO (cryptocurrency)
* IT security
* Gems
Category:French businesspeople 
Category:1970 births