Assistant Professor in Computer Science at ENS.

Contact

Pierre-Alain Fouque École normale supérieure Département d'Informatique 45, rue d'Ulm 75230 Paris Cedex 05 Tel: +33 1 44 32 20 48 Email: Pierre-Alain.Fouque_AT_ens.fr

Research

• Symmetric Cryptography
• Security Proof
• Development of tool to automatically find cryptographic attacks
• Side-Channel Attacks

• Program Committee: PKC 2013, CRYPTO 2012, Eurocrypt 2012, CT-RSA 2012, SCN 2012, FSE 2011, SAC 2011, CHES 2011, CHES 2010, PKC 2009, Eurocrypt 2009, CHES 2009, CHES 2008, PKC 2006, CHES 2006.
  

• All my publications
• cv
• Habilitation Thesis: December 2010
• I have been involved in the design of the SHA3 candidate SIMD hash function

PhD Students

Alumni:

• Sébastien Zimmer, PhD 2005-2008.
  Authentication and Key Derivation, École polytechnique. Defense 22 september 2008, École normale supérieure. co-advisor David Pointcheval 50%. Actual position: Defense Minister.
• Gilles Macario-Rat, PhD 2007-2010.
  Cryptanalysis of Multivariate Schemes and the IP Problem, Paris VII. Defense 28 June 2010. co-advisor Jacques Stern 50%. PhD done in the Orange Labs. Actual position: permanent researcher at Orange Labs.
• Gaëtan Leurent, PhD 2007-2010 .
  Design and Analysis of hash functions, Paris VII. Defense 30 september 2010. Main advisor (90%), co-advisor David Pointcheval.
  Actual position: PostDoc at UCL with Francois-Xavier Standaert.
• Charles Bouillaguet PhD 2008-2011.
  Multivariate Cryptanalysis, Mode of operation for hash functions and AES cryptanalysis tool.
  Actual Position: Assistant Professor at Lilles.
• Delphine Masgana Leresteux. PhD 2008-2012.
  Fault Attacks. Work done at DGA MI Labs at Rennes.
  Actual Position: Engineer at DGA.

Current Students:

• Jérémy Jean PhD 2010-2013.
  Cryptanalysis of hash functions
• Patrick Derbez. PhD 2010-2013.
  Cryptanalysis of Round-Reduced AES with low data
• Jean-Christophe Zapalowicz PhD 2011-2014.
  Cryptanalysis of Asymmetric scheme
• Pierre Karpman. PhD 2012-2015 with Daniel Augot and Thomas Peyrin. Hash Functions.

Master Students

• Oualid Ammar, Internship Master Algo 1999/2000.
  Implementing Shoup threshold signature scheme.
• Sébastien Zimmer, Internship Master MPRI 2004/2005.
  Distinguishing LSB or MSB of a Diffie-Hellman key from random bits.
• Gaëtan Leurent, Internship Master MPRI 2005/2006.
  Automatic Search of Differential Paths on the MD4 Hash Function.
• Aurore Bernard, Internship Master MPRI 2005/2006.
  Attacks on algebraic hash functions.
• Charles Bouillaguet, Internship Master MPRI 2006/2007.
  Security and Security Proof of Mode of operations for hash functions.
• Thomas Chardin, Internship Ecole polytechnique, 2007/2008.
  Timing-Cache Attack on RC4.
• Jérémy Jean, Internship KTH/Ensimag 2009/2010.
  Rebound Attacks on ECHO
• Patrick Derbez, ENS Cachan, Internship Master Maths Appli (UVSQ) 2009/2010.
  Automatic Search of guess-and-determine and MITM Attacks on Round-Reduced AES

Grants

I am responsible for different projects:

• Projet RNRT Crypto ++ 10/2003 -- 12/2006
  Partenaires: FT Recherche et Développement, Cryptolog, Gemalto.
  Goal: Stying electronic voting and electronic payment.
• Projet RNRT SAPHIR 03/2006 -- 03/2009
  Partenaires: FT Recherche et Développement, DCSSI, Cryptolog et Gemalto
  Goal: Studying Wang Attacks on hash function and design of new candidates for the SHA-3 competition.
• Projet ANR Saphir II 03/2009 -- 03/2013
  Goal: Studying Hash Functions and the SHA-3 competition

Concours

I have been secretary for the concours at l'Ecole normale supérieure. Here you can find some past exams. I have also been involved in the international recruitment.