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Serge Vaudenay

serge.vaudenay@epfl.ch +41 21 693 76 96 http://lasec.epfl.ch/people/vaudenay/

EPFL IC IINFCOM LASEC
INF 237 (Bâtiment INF)
Station 14
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

Cryptography, Communication security
Serge Vaudenay entered at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in 1989 with a major in mathematics. He earned his agrégation (secondary teaching degree) in mathematics in 1992, then a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Paris 7 - Denis Diderot in 1995. He subsequently became a senior research fellow at the CNRS, prior to being granted his habilitation à diriger des recherches (a postdoctoral degree authorizing the recipient to supervise doctoral students). In 1999, he was appointed as a Professor at the EPFL, where he created the Security and Cryptography Laboratory.

CURRENT WORK


  • Cryptographic analysis: security analysis (security proofs, attacks) of cryptographic primitives
  • Lightweight cryptography: design and analysis of cryptographic primitives in constrained environments (stream cipher, key agreement, RFID privacy)
  • Secure communication channels: key agreement, authentication and confidentiality, privacy

Serge Vaudenay

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Selected publications

La fracture cryptographique

S. Vaudenay
Published in PPUR - 2010 in

A Classical Introduction to Cryptography - Applications for Communications Security

S. Vaudenay
Published in Springer - 2005 in

Short Undeniable Signatures Based on Group Homomorphisms

J. Monnerat, S. Vaudenay
Published in Journal of Cryptology, 24, 2011 in

On Privacy Models for RFID

S. Vaudenay
Published in Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT 07 - LNCS 4833 - 2007 in

Secure Communications over Insecure Channels Based on Short Authenticated Strings

S. Vaudenay
Published in Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 05 - LNCS 3621 - 2005 in

Password Interception in a SSL/TLS Channel

B. Canvel, A. Hiltgen, S. Vaudenay, M. Vuagnoux
Published in Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 03 - LNCS 2729 - 2003 in

Decorrelation: a Theory for Block Cipher Security

S. Vaudenay
Published in Journal of Cryptology, 16, 2003 in

Cryptanalysis of the Chor-Rivest Cryptosystem

S. Vaudenay
Published in Journal of Cryptology, 14, 2001 in

The Security of the Birational Permutation Signature Schemes

D. Coppersmith, J. Stern, S. Vaudenay
Published in Journal of Cryptology, 10, 1997 in

Research

External list

Teaching & PhD

Current Phd

Keng-Yu Chen, Laurane Marco, Lewis Alexander Glabush, David Dervishi, Max Jackson Samuel Sydney William Leslie Duparc

Past Phd As Director

Pascal Junod, Gildas Avoine, Yi Lu, Jean Monnerat, Thomas Baignères, Simon Fischer, Sylvain Pasini, Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Martin Vuagnoux, Claude Barral, Khaled Ouafi, Pouyan Sepehrdad, Asli Bay, Alexandre Duc, Petr Susil, Rafik Chaabouni, Sonia Mihaela Bogos, Damian Vizár, Handan Kilinç Alper, Gwangbae Choi, Muhammed Fatih Balli, Novak Kaluderovic, Andrea Felice Caforio, Khashayar Barooti, Aymeric Genet, Loïs Evan Huguenin-Dumittan, Bénédikt Minh Dang Tran, Daniel Patrick Collins, Abdullah Talayhan

Courses

Advanced cryptography

COM-501

This course reviews some failure cases in public-key cryptography. It introduces some cryptanalysis techniques. It also presents fundamentals in cryptography such as interactive proofs. Finally, it presents some techniques to validate the security of cryptographic primitives.

Cryptography and security

COM-401

This course introduces the basics of cryptography. We review several types of cryptographic primitives, when it is safe to use them and how to select the appropriate security parameters. We detail how they work and sketch how they can be implemented.

Student seminar: security protocols and applications

COM-506

This seminar introduces the participants to the current trends, problems, and methods in the area of communication security.