Serge Vaudenay

I am professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technologies (EPFL) where I head the Security and Cryptography Laboratory (LASEC) within the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (I&C). My main research topic is about the security of cryptographic algorithms and protocols.

Last update: January 26th, 2024.

Books (external links)

Textbook	Exercises	Exercises	Essay

Edited Proceedings (external links)

FSE' 98	SAC' 01	PKC' 05	Mycrypt' 05	EUROCRYPT' 06	AFRICACRYPT' 08
SAC' 11	AFRICACRYPT' 12	INDOCRYPT' 13	ACNS' 14	CANS' 20

Me, Myself, and I

(link to EPFL) Short BIO

(link to Google Scholar) citations

(link to dblp) publications

Research

My publications

(link to LASEC) Decorrelation Theory

(link to LASEC) DFC: a candidate for the Advanced Encryption Standard

(link to LASEC) The Ultimate Short Undeniable Signatures

(link to LASEC) FOX Specifications Version 1.2 (Block Cipher)

(link to LASEC) Password Interception in a SSL/TLS Channel

Contact Tracing - SwissCovid

Supervised PhD Theses

1. Pascal Junod (2004) Statistical Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers

2. Gildas Avoine (2005) Cryptography in Radio Frequency Identification and Fair Exchange Protocols

3. Yi Lu (2006) Applied Stream Ciphers in Mobile Communications

4. Jean Monnerat (2006) Short Undeniable Signatures

5. Simon Fischer (2008) Analysis of Lightweight Stream Ciphers (co-supervised with Willi Meier)

6. Thomas Baignères (2008) Quantitative Security of Block Ciphers - Designs and Cryptanalysis Tools

7. Sylvain Pasini (2009) Secure Communication using Authenticated Channels

8. Jean-Philippe Aumasson (2009) Analysis and Design of Symmetric Cryptographic Algorithms (co-supervised with Willi Meier)

9. Claude Barral (2010) Biometrics and Security: Combining Fingerprints, Smart Cards and Cryptography (co-supervised with Assia Tria)

10. Martin Vuagnoux (2010) Computer Aided Cryptanalysis from Ciphers to Side Channels

11. Khaled Ouafi (2012) Security and Privacy in RFID Systems

12. Pouyan Sepehrdad (2012) Statistical and Algebraic Cryptanalysis of Lightweight and Ultra-Lightweight Symmetric Primitives

13. Aslı Bay (2014) Provable Security of Block Ciphers and Cryptanalysis

14. Petr Sušil (2015) Algebraic Cryptanalysis of Deterministic Symmetric Encryption

15. Alexandre Duc (2015) Bringing Theory Closer to Practice in Post-quantum and Leakage-resilient Cryptography

16. Rafik Chaabouni (2017) Enhancing Privacy Protection: Set Membership, Range Proofs, and the Extended Access Control

17. Sonia Bogos (2017) LPN in Cryptography: an Algorithmic Study

18. Damian Vizár (2018) Provably Secure Authenticated Encryption

19. Handan Kılınç (2018) Implications of Position in Cryptography

20. Gwangbae Choi (2020) Time in Cryptography

21. Fatih Balli (2021) Serial Lightweight Implementation Techniques for Block Ciphers

22. Novak Kaluđerović (2022) Attacks on some post-quantum cryptographic protocols: The case of the Legendre PRF and SIKE

23. Andrea Caforio (2023) Green Cryptography and Other Optimisations

24. Khashayar Barooti (2023) Security in the Presence of Quantum Adversaries

25. Aymeric Genêt (2024) Side-channel analysis of isogeny-based key encapsulation mechanisms and hash-based digital signatures

Teaching

At the Ecole Polytechnique (1998-99, in French only)

At the Ecole Normale Supérieure (1998-99, in French only)

(link to LASEC) At EPFL (2000 until now)

Videos

(youtube) The Diffie-Hellman Protocol (2016, ZettaBytes)

(youtube) 2 Challenges in Cryptography Research (2016, ZettaBytes)

Hiring and other requests

(link to LASEC) Guidelines (requests not following the guidelines will most likely be discarded)

Links

(link to LASEC) LASEC

(external link) I&C School

(external link) EPFL

Journals and Book series

(external link) Communications in Information and Systems (CIS)

(external link) Communication Systems, EPFL Press

(external link) Springer Cryptography and Communications: Discrete Structures, Boolean Functions and Sequences (CCDS)

(external link) Journal of Cryptology (JoC)

Personal links

(external link) Couleur Garba (chanson française, humour, poésie, en 3D !): a nice band in France

Other

Errata of the French Edition of Stinson's book (1st Edition)