Margarita Cordero

About me

I am a Ph.D. student at LORIA Nancy. I work at the INRIA and LORIA’s team CARAMBA, under the supervision of Virginie Lallemand and Marine Minier.

My Ph.D. dissertation focuses on the cryptanalysis of symmetric key primitives, mainly block ciphers

Talks

  • On Impossible Boomerang Attacks. Journées C2 2023. [Slides]
  • T-wise independence for block ciphers. Journées de Departament 2023. [Slides]
  • Semi-automatic tool for test case generation on X.509 parser. REDOCS 2022. [Slides]
  • Cluster Search and MILP Modeling for Differential Attacks. Team Seminar 2022. [Slides]
  • Differential cryptanalysis and cluster search. Journées de Departament 2022. [Slides]
  • Tool for Automatically Generation of Abstraction-based Differential Attacks. Journées C2 2022. [Slides]

Teaching

  • 2024 spring semester. Operational research, first-year École des Mines, Nancy.
  • 2023 fall semester. Machine learning, second-year École des Mines, Nancy.
  • 2023 fall semester. Algorithms and complexity, first-year École des Mines, Nancy.
  • 2023 spring semester. Algorithms and complexity, first-year École des Mines, Nancy.
  • 2023 spring semester. Operational research, first-year École des Mines, Nancy.
  • 2022 fall semester. Programming and data structures, first-year École des Mines, Nancy.

Education

  • Currently – Ph.D. in Computer Science. Design and Cryptanalysis of New Symmetric Key Cryptographic Primitives. Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
  • 2021 – Master in Cybersecurity. ENSIMAG – UGA, Grenoble, France.
  • 2020 – Degree in Mathematics. Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain.