Contact
Pierre-Alain Fouque Université Rennes 1 Campus de Beaulieu 263, avenue du Général Leclerc - Batiment 12 35042 Rennes Cedex Tel: +33 2 99 84 75 58 Email: Pierre-Alain.Fouque_AT_ens.fr |
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Research
- Symmetric Cryptography
- Security Proof
- Development of tool to automatically find cryptographic attacks
- Side-Channel Attacks
- Program Committee:
CRYPTO 2016, PKC 2016, CCS 2016, CCS 2015, CHES 2015, CHES 2014, SCN 2014, CRYPTO 2014, Eurocrypt 2014, 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.
PhD Students
Past Students:- Sébastien Zimmer, PhD 2005-2008 with David Pointcheval.
Subject: Authentication and Key Derivation, École polytechnique. Defense 22 september 2008, École normale supérieure.
Actual Position: Defense Minister. - Gilles Macario-Rat, PhD 2007-2010 with Jacques Stern.
Subject: Cryptanalysis of Multivariate Schemes and the IP Problem, Paris VII. Defense 28 June 2010. PhD done in the Orange Labs.
Actual position: permanent researcher at Orange Labs. - Gaëtan Leurent, PhD 2007-2010.
Subject: Design and Analysis of hash functions, Paris VII. Defense 30 september 2010. Main advisor (90%), co-advisor David Pointcheval.
Actual position: Starting Research Grant at INRIA Paris. - Charles Bouillaguet, PhD 2008-2011.
Subject: Multivariate Cryptanalysis, Mode of operation for hash functions and AES cryptanalysis tool.
Actual Position: Assistant Professor at Lilles. - Delphine Masgana Leresteux, PhD 2008-2012.
Subject: Fault Attacks. Work done at DGA MI Labs at Rennes.
Actual Position: Engineer at DGA.MI. - Jérémy Jean, PhD 2010-2013.
Subject: Crytanalysis of Hash Function.
Actual Position: Researcher and Engineer at ANSSI. - Patrick Derbez, PhD 2010-2013.
Subject: Cryptanalysis of AES.
Actual Position: Assistant Professor at Université Rennes 1
- Jean-Christophe
Zapalowicz PhD 2011-2014.
Subject: Cryptanalysis of Pseudo-Random Generator and side-channel attack
Actual Position: Thales. - Sonia Belaid. PhD 2012-2015 with Michel Abdalla.
Subject: Side-Channel: Attacks and Masking.
Actual Position: Researcher at Thales. - Brice Minaud. PhD 2014-2016.
Subject: Analyse de primitives cryptographiques récentes
Postdoc at RHUL with Kenny Paterson. - Pierre Karpman. PhD 2013-2016 with Daniel Augot and Thomas Peyrin.
Subject:
Postdoc at CWI with Mark Stevens. - Pierre Lestringant. PhD 2013-2016 with Amossys (Rennes) with Frédéric Guilhéry.
Subject: Identification of cryptographic algorithms in security products. - Benjamin Richard. PhD 2013-2017 with Orange Labs (Paris) with Gilles Macario-Rat and Cristina Onete.
Subject: Security Proof in Authentication and Key Exchange.
- Raphael Bost. PhD 2014-2017 with David Pointcheval. DGA.MI
Subject: Security Proof in Symmetric Cryptography and Cloud Security. - Claire Delaplace. PhD 2015-2017 with Charles Bouillaguet. ANR Brutus.
Subject: Side-Channel and Lattice-Based Cryptography. -
Thomas Espitau. PhD 2016-2019 with Antoine Joux.
Subject: Lattice-Based Cryptography.
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 - Thomas Bourgeat, ENS, Internship (L3) 2013.
Algorithms for LPN. - Thomas Espitau, ENS Cachan, Internship (L3) 2014.
Higher-Order Differential and Hash Functions. - Chen Qian, ENS Rennes, Internship (L3) 2014.
Fault Attack on Pairing Implementation. - Paul Kirchner, ENS, Internship (L3) 2014.
BKW Algorithm for binary LWE. - Paul Kirchner, ENS, Dispo (M1-M2) 2015-16.
Lattice algo, FHE, White-Box Crypto, NTRU cryptanalysis, Gentry-Szydlo algo.
Grants
I am responsible for different projects:- Projet ANR SafeTLS 10/2016 -- 2019
Partenaires: Univerité Rennes 1, INRIA Sophia, Paris, CryptoSense
Goal: Security of TLS. - Projet ANR Brutus 2014 -- 03/2018
Partenaires: INRIA PAris, Sophia, ANSSI, Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, Lille, Rennes 1
Goal: Studying Authenticated Block Cipher and CAESAR 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.