Some recent updates:

• A tenured Professor faculty position (“Professeur des universités”) is open to highly qualified candidates who are committed to a career in research and teaching. Preference will be given to candidates with very strong research achievements in one or several of the areas related to the general fields of cryptology and information security. The deadline for applications is 29 March 2024.


• Pierre Galissant's Ph.D Defense: « Contributions à la cryptographie boîte blanche : modèles et constructions algébriques » (21/12/2023, UVSQ)


• On October 1st, 2023, our Cryptology and Information Security research group has welcomed Balthazar Bauer as a Junior Professor.


• Since July 2023, I have been a member of the External Experts Advisory Board of the REWIRE European project.


• Our SeCReTS graduate program has been recognized by Eduniversal/SMBG "Meilleurs masters 2023" ranking.


• Our SeCReTS graduate program was highlighted in the special edition "la cote 2023 des diplômes" of the French newspaper Challenges (december 2022).


• Published paper in Annales des Mines - Réalités industrielles 2022/3 (Août 2022): « Le chiffrement, ou l'apport de la cryptologie à la sécurisation du stockage, de la transmission et du traitement des données »


• Our SeCReTS graduate program has been recognized by Eduniversal/SMBG "Meilleurs masters 2022" ranking.


• Nagarjun Dwarakanath's Ph.D Defense: « Contributions théoriques et pratiques au chiffrement homomorphe » (13/12/2021, UVSQ)


• Loic Besson's Ph.D Defense: « Conception, analyse et implémentation d'algorithmes de chiffrement symétrique sur FPGA » (8/12/2021, UVSQ)


• Axel Mathieu-Mahias' Ph.D Defense: « Sécurisation des implémentations d'algorithmes cryptographiques pour les systèmes embarqués » (6/12/2021, UVSQ)


• Recipient of the 2021 CHES Test of Time Award


• Our SeCReTS graduate program has been recognized by Eduniversal/SMBG "Meilleurs masters 2021" ranking.


• Accepted paper at TCHES on new attack techniques against WhibOx 2019 winners.


• Published paper at Journal of Cryptographic Engineering on improving side-channel attacks against pairing-based cryptography.


• I am the coordinator of a new collaborative project: SWITECH (Secure Software using Whitebox Cryptography), projet ANR [2020-2023]


• Our SeCReTS graduate program has been recognized by Eduniversal/SMBG "Meilleurs masters 2020" ranking.


• Pierre Galissant has been awarded a grant fellowship by the STIC Doctoral School (Paris-Saclay University) for a Ph.D on « White-box Cryptography and Code Obfuscation », starting on October 1st, 2019, under my supervision.


• I co-organize Mathematics behind Blockchain from September 30th to October 2nd, 2019. During the 3 days of this session of the Interface programme, academics and industry will meet to share a common understanding of these « blockchain » technologies, starting from basic concepts to go to advanced cryptographic primitives that allow to manage the confidentiality of data in particular in a distributed environment.


• On September 1st, 2019, our Cryptology and Information Security research group has welcomed Yann Rotella as a new tenured Assistant Professor (« Maître de Conférences »).


• Our SeCReTS graduate program has been included in the Education map of ENISA (European Union Agency for Cybersecurity).


• The GDR Sécurité Informatique awarded Ilaria Chillotti a certificate of merit for her Ph.D thesis: « Towards efficient and secure Fully Homomorphic Encryption and cloud computing ».


• World-Class Cryptographers Join Forces with Fusion to Build Superior Blockchain Interoperability and Distributed Custodial Solution: Twitter announcement, Press Release, Yahoo! Finance covering.


• From Spring 2019, I have been supervising Nagarjun Dwarakanath's Ph.D thesis on « Homomorphic Cryptography », in collaboration with the ATOS company.


• I co-organize the WhibOx Contest - Edition 2. Once again, we hope to give a boost to scientific research and elevate the worldwide industrial know-how in the field of white-box cryptography. The competition launches on March 23, 2019 @ 00:00 UTC!


• Our SeCReTS graduate program has been recognized by the SMBG "Meilleurs masters 2019" ranking.


• A faculty position at the tenured Assistant Professor (« Maître de Conférences ») level is open to highly qualified candidates who are committed to a career in research and teaching. Preference will be given to candidates with strong research achievements in one or several of the areas related to the general fields of cryptology and/or information security. The deadline for applications is 26 March 2019.


• The Round 2 candidates of the Post-Quantum Cryptography call were announced January 30, 2019 by the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA): among the 25 selected algorithms, 6 are from the RISQ project, and 2 from UVSQ.


• The evaluation report of the LMV Laboratory has just been released by HCERES (High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education).
  • See pp. 23 for my Cryptology and Information Security research group: "La qualité de la production est excellente. Les publications sont de très haute qualité, tant d'un point de vue quantitatif que qualitatif [...]. Les résultats sont présentés dans des conférences prestigieuses et obtiennent parfois la distinction de « best paper award » [...]. Cette équipe est très visible dans la communauté de recherche de son domaine."


• I am PC member of NuTMiC 2019 (Paris, France), 2nd Workshop on Number-Theoretic Methods in Cryptology.


• Ilaria Chillotti's Ph.D Defense: « Towards efficient and secure Fully Homomorphic Encryption and cloud computing » (17/5/2018, UVSQ)


• Our SeCReTS graduate program has been recognized by the SMBG "Meilleurs masters 2018" ranking.


• Thomas Hiscock's Ph.D Defense: « Microcontrôleur à flux chiffré d'instructions et de données » (7/12/2017, Minatec, Grenoble)


• Workshop HEAT (27-28 novembre 2017, Leuven, Belgique): Talk « Using homomorphic encryption for Automated Detection of Crime ».


• Cyril Hugounenq's Ph.D Defense: « Arithmétique Rapide pour la Géométrie et la Cryptologie » (30/9/2017, UVSQ)


• September 2017: Winner (with Matthieu Rivain, Pascal Paillier et Junwei Wang) of the WhibOx competition, organized by the ECRYPT-CSA H2020 Project. Best attack against AES white-box implementations.


• Damien Jauvart's Ph.D Defense: « Sécurisation des algorithmes de couplages contre les attaques physiques » (20/9/2017, Centre Microélectronique de Provence Georges Charpak, Gardane)


• Our SeCReTS graduate program was highlighted in the special edition "50 Masters d'excellence qui font de l'ombre aux grandes écoles" of the French newspaper Challenges (september 2017).


• Ninon Eyrolles's Ph.D Defense: « Obfuscation par expressions mixtes arithmético-booléennes : reconstruction, analyse et outils de simplification » (30/6/2017, UVSQ)


• Francisco José Vial-Prado's Ph.D Defense: « Contributions to design and analysis of Fully Homomorphic Encryption schemes » (12/6/2017, UVSQ)


• Our SeCReTS graduate program has been recognized by the SMBG "Meilleurs masters 2017" ranking.


• The book Guide to Pairing-Based Cryptography (Chapman & Hall/CRC) has been published (December 2016). It is intended primarily for engineers, professionals from academia and security industry, as well as to undergraduate and graduate student in applied mathematics, scientific computing, computer science, microelectronic. It can be used as a textbook for a graduate course, for an advanced undergraduate course or for a summer school. It will serve at a self-contained handbook and detailed overview of efficient implementation of pairing based cryptography, with programming examples.


• Our SeCReTS graduate program was highlighted in the special edition "Les masters d'avenir" of the French newspaper "Le Monde" (26/01/2017).


• Ilaria Chillotti, Nicolas Gama et Louis Goubin : "Attacking FHE-based applications by software fault injections". IACR ePrint Archive, 2016/1164.


• New collaborative project: RISQ (Regroupement de l'Industrie française pour la Sécurité post-Quantique), projet Investissements d'Avenir, Grands Défis du Numérique [2017-2020]
  • Labellisé par le pôle de compétitivité System@tic
  • Partenaires : Airbus Group, ANSSI, CEA, CryptoExperts, CS Communication & Systèmes, École normale supérieure, Gemalto, IRISA, Inria Paris, Inria Rhône-Alpes, Orange, Paris Centre for Quantum Computing, UVSQ, Secure-IC, Thales Communications & Security


• Master SeCReTS : discrétion et professionnalisme. In MagSecurs, n.52, 4th trimester, 2016.


• Since 2016: member of the « Paris-Saclay » task force at UVSQ.


• Les attaques par canaux auxiliaires: un danger encore méconnu. In MagSecurs, n.51, 3rd trimester, 2016.


• Alberto Battistello's Ph.D Defense: « Sécurité des systèmes cryptographiques embarqués vis-à-vis des attaques par canaux auxiliaires » (29/6/2016, école normale supérieure)


• Our SeCReTS graduate program has been recognized by the SMBG "Meilleurs masters 2016" ranking.


• Post-Snowden Cryptography: the Million dollar curve project, in collaboration with Cryptoexperts
  • Article in The Register.


• "La nécessité de promouvoir un niveau efficace de cyber-sécurité". Talk in the convention Vers un droit global du numérique ? (29 janvier 2016, Ministère des affaires étrangères, Paris).


• Chapter "Side Channel Attacks". In Handbook of Pairing Based Cryptography, Nadia El Mrabet, and Marc Joye, Eds, CRC Press Taylor and Francis group, 2016.


• New graduate course at Université Paris-Saclay: Calcul sécurisé / Secure computation.


• Since December 2015, member of the "Conseil de perfectionnement" for the EEJSI graduate program (Paris II University).


• On November 16th, 2015, the PRiSM Laboratory was disbanded and my Cryptology and Information Security research team reached the LMV Laboratory (Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Versailles, UMR CNRS-UVSQ 8100).


• Current program committees:
  • PC Member of CHES 2015 (Saint-Malo, France), 17th Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems.
  • PC Member of COSADE 2015 (Berlin, Germany), 6th International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design.


• Interview in Cryptographie, monde clés. In Libération, mars 2015.


• The SeCReTS graduate program appears in the SMBG Meilleurs masters 2015 ranking.


• Ronan Lashermes's Ph.D Defense: « Accélérateurs matériels de cryptographie à courbes elliptiques sécurisés à base de Couplage » (29/9/2014, UVSQ)


• The evaluation report of the PRiSM Laboratory has just been published by AERES (Evaluation Agency for Research and Higher education).
  • See pp. 27-29 for my Cryptology and Information Security research team: "Il s'agit d'une excellente équipe à féliciter pour ses succès, et qu'il convient d'encourager dans la poursuite de ses ambitions."


• New collaborative project: CRYPTOCOMP, projet FUI (Fonds Unique Interministériel) [2014-2017]
  • Labellisé par le pôle de compétitivité System@tic
  • Partenaires : UVSQ, CEA LIST, CryptoExperts, ENS, Dictao, XLIM, ViAccess Orca, CNRS Lab-STICC, Bertin Technologies, Kalray, Gemalto
  • Description : Le projet CRYPTOCOMP vise à mettre au point la première véritable plateforme de cryptocalcul pour le cloud. Plusieurs fois exploratoire, CRYPTOCOMP s'appuie sur la multi-disciplinarité de son consortium pour concevoir des outils logiciels innovants permettant à des opérateurs de services de développer et d'instrumenter concrètement des applications de cryptocalcul à très faible surcoût de génie logiciel.


• Course "Cryptography and White-Box Security" during the "Codage et Cryptographie" Spring School (Grenoble, March 17-21, 2014).


• Our graduate program, called SeCReTS (Security of Contents, Networks, Telecommunications and Systems) was highlighted in the special edition "Les Pépites 2014 de la fac" of the French magazine "Le Nouvel Observateur".