Brice Minaud

Travels

Conferences are a great way to travel, especially Asiacrypt. Here are some photos.

• New Zealand in December. Reminder: that's summer in Kiwiland.
• Hanoi and Huế (Vietnam) in December. The rainy season was still in effect.
• The Scottish highlands in late August. The foggy season is all year round.
• Athens and Rome in the Summer.. It's hot.
• Indian East Coast (Kolkata to Chennai) in April.. Mostly photos of people.

Some Attempts at Graphic Design

EMSEC logo. I was tasked with designing the logo of the EMSEC team at IRISA, taking input from all team members.

• Initial brainstorming (in French) with the help of Pierre Karpman.
• First rejected logo.
• Now with a catchphrase (in French). Immediate rejection. Also rejected.
• This one wasn't rejected. Probably because we didn't submit it.
• Finally the actual serious logo proposals, which underwent a voting process from team members with several iterations.

BRUTUS logo. I co-designed a logo proposal for the ANR BRUTUS research project with Pierre Karpman. I think in the end they just kept the lower part.

PhD defense posters. There is a strong tradition at IRISA that PhD defenses should be advertised using silly posters. I have had the honor of creating the posters for two of my fellow IRISA alumni.

• Poster for Pierre Karpman, 2016.
• Poster for Raphaël Bost, 2018.

For the first one, it may help to know that a free-start collision (collision libre) is called a colibri (hummingbird) in French. And that SHA sounds like chat (cat).

Beer-Recovery Attack

As part of the CAESAR authenticated encryption competition, the designers of the PRIMATEs cipher suite organized the Drunken Monkey Competition. My short note about cube attacks on APE won first prize: a case of Westvleteren XII trappist beer—sometimes considered the best beer in the world. Thanks!

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