Research interests
- Elliptic and hyperelliptic curves for cryptography (point counting, discrete logarithm, efficient group law).
- Integer factorization (in particular the Number Field Sieve algorithm).
- Discrete logarithm problem in finite fields.
- Electronic voting.
PhD students
- Julien Soumier (current)
- Medhi Kermaoui (current)
- Léo Louistisserand (current)
- Quentin Yang (defended in 2023)
- Gabrielle De Micheli (defended in 2021). Thesis prize Gilles Kahn 2021, Foundation l’Oréal-UNESCO Young Talent for Women in Science prize
- Simon Abelard (defended in 2018). Prix de thèse de l’École doctorale IAEM.
- Laurent Grémy (defended in 2017)
- Razvan Barbulescu (defended in 2013). Prix de thèse Le Monde de la recherche
- Louise Huot (defended in 2013)
- Nicolas Estibals (defended in 2013)
- Gaëtan Bisson (defended in 2011)
- Thomas Houtmann (started in 2004, discontinued)
Program Committee member
- EUROCRYPT 2024, 43rd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Zurich, Switzerland.
- EUROCRYPT 2022, 41st Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Trondheim, Norway.
- PKC 2022, 25th International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography, Virtual.
- CT-RSA 2022, Cryptographers’ Track at the RSA Conference, Virtual.
- EUROCRYPT 2017, 36th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Paris, France.
- ECC 2016, 20th Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Izmir, Turkey.
- SAC 2016, 23rd Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography, St. John’s, NL, Canada.
- PASCO 2015, 7th International Workshop on Parallel Symbolic Computation, Bath, UK.
- WCC 2015, 9th International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography, Paris, France.
- PKC 2015, 18th International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
- WAIFI 2014 5th International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields, Gebze, Turkey.
- ASIACRYPT 2013, 19th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Bangalore, India.
- EUROCRYPT 2011, 30th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Tallinn, Estonia.
- ECC 2010 14th Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Redmond, WA, USA.
- SCC 2010, 2nd International Conference on Symbolic Computation and Cryptography, Egham, UK.
- INDOCRYPT 2009, 10th International Conference on Cryptology in India, New Delhi, India.
- PAIRING 2009, 3rd International Conference on Pairing-based Cryptography, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
- SCC 2008, First International Conference on Symbolic Computation and Cryptography, Beijing, China.
- WAIFI 2007, First International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields, Madrid, Spain.
Editorial and steering committee member
- Member of the editorial board of the journal IACR Communications in Cryptology in 2024.
- Member of the steering committee of the Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) series since 2014.
- Member of the editorial board of the journal Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing (AAECC) between 2014 and 2016.
Invited talks
- Talk at the Workshop on Attacks in Crypto, (virtually) colocated with Crypto 2020.
- Talk at the Real World Crypto conference, New York, USA, 2020.
- Talk at the ECC 2019 Conference, Bochum, Germany, 2019.
- Talk at the Journées ALÉA, Marseille, 2016.
- Talk at the YACC 2016 Conference, Porquerolles, 2016.
- Talk at the Colloquium Jacques Morgenstern, Nice, 2015.
- Talk at the DLP 2014 Workshop, Ascona, Switzerland, 2014.
- Talk at the SAC 2014 Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2014.
- Lectures at the Journées nationales de calcul formel (JNCF), Marseille, 2014.
- Talk at the PAIRING 2013 Conference, Beijing, China, 2013.
- Lectures at the ECC Summer School 2013, Leuven, Belgium, 2013.
- Talk at the ECC 2013 Conference, Leuven, Belgium, 2013.
- Talk at the Gerhard Frey retirement conference. Essen, Germany, 2009.
- Talk at the ECC 2007 Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2007.
- Lectures at the Journées C2, Aussois, 2005.
- Lectures at a Summer School on Cryptology, Tunis, Tunisia, 2005.
- Lectures at a Special Semester at IHP, Paris, 2004.
- Talk at the ECC 2004 Conference, Bochum, Germany, 2004.
- Talk at the 14ème Rencontres Arithmétiques, Caen 2003.
- Talk at the Finite Fields and their Applications Conference Fq-7, Toulouse, 2003.
- Lectures at a Summer School on Cryptology, Bordeaux 2003.
- Lectures at the Tutorials of the ISSAC 2002 Conference, Lille, 2002.
- Talk at the ECC 2001 Conference, Waterloo, ON, Canada, 2001.
- Talk at the LMS Durham Symposium on Computational Number Theory, Durham, UK, 2000.
- Talk at the ECC 2000 Conference, Essen, Germany, 2000.
Academic Projects
- Projet Cryptanalyse du PEPR Cybersécurité (member, 2023-2028).
- ANR KLEPTOMANIAC (member, 2022-2026).
- ANR CATREL (member, 2013-2015).
- ANR CHIC (member, 2009-2012).
- ANR CADO (PI, 2006-2010).
- Egide Procope Project with TU Berlin (PI, 2005-2006).
- ACI CESAM (member, 2003-2006).
- ACI Cryptologie pAdique (member, 2002-2004).
Projects / contracts with the industry
- With Swiss Post (co-PI, 2021-2024).
- With the French ministry of Foreign Affairs (MEAE) (co-PI, 2022-2023). Mirrors of the 2022 and 2023 web sites.
- With Nomadic Labs (co-PI, 2020).
- With Idemia (co-PI, 2019-2021).
- With Docapost about e-voting (co-PI, 2017-2019).
- With the Canton of Geneva about e-voting (participant, 2018).
- With the French ministry of Defense about public key cryptography (co-PI, 2017-2019).
- With Docapost about e-voting (co-PI, 2015).
- With Voxaly about e-voting (co-PI, 2013).
- With Kalray about the MPPA many-core processor (co-PI, 2013).
- With HTCS about public key cryptography (co-PI, 2012-2016).
Awards
- 2021. Distinguished paper award at ASIACRYPT 2021, for the article describing our discrete log record computation with the Tower Number Field Sieve.
- 2021. Bug bounty from Swiss Post for the discovery of an attack on their e-voting system.
- 2019. 2,000,000 rubles of bug bounty for the discovery of weaknesses in the Moscow Internet voting system.
- 2015. Pwnie Award for Most Innovative Research, for the Logjam attack.
- 2015. Best paper award at ACM CCS 2015 for the Logjam attack article.
- 2015. Distinguished paper award at ASIACRYPT 2015, for the Tower Number Field Sieve article.
- 2014. Best paper award at EUROCRYPT 2014, for the quasi-polynomial discrete log algorithm article.
- 2012. Prix La Recherche pour la factorisation de RSA-768.
- 2011. Distinguished paper award at ASIACRYPT 2011, for the Real multiplication point counting article.
- 2007. Distinguished paper award at EUROCRYPT 2007, for the L(1/3) discrete logarithm in curves article.