The UCL Crypto Group gathers some twenty researchers with backgrounds from microelectronics, telecommunications, computer science and mathematics.
This wide diversity of knowledge allowed the group to develop a strong expertise in cryptography but also in its applications to various security related issues, including physical attacks and countermeasures on hardware devices (smart-cards, FPGAs, ASICs), efficient implementation of cryptosystems, design and analysis of cryptosystems and protocols, elliptic curve and identity based cryptography, formal foundations of cryptography, zero-knowledge identification, privacy enhancing technologies, voting systems, spam analysis, etc.
Through strong commitment to academic research (more than 150 international publications since 2004) and its numerous collaborations with industrial partners, the UCL Crypto Group is intensively involved in the evolution of security technology, including the design of the next generation of smart-cards, sensor networks, privacy preserving systems, etc.
The UCL Crypto Group has now a blog!
- Checkout https://decryptage.be (in French)
Latest news
- Best Paper Award at CHES 2019. Together with colleagues from the University of Bochum (Germany), ICTEAM researchers Tobias Schneider (now with NXP) and François-Xavier Standaert won the best paper award of the Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems 2019, that was held in Atlanta on August 25-28, 2019. Their paper "Glitch-Resistant Masking Revisited – or Why Proofs in the Robust Probing Model are Needed" is published in the IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Volume 2019, Issue 2.
- François-Xavier Standaert awarded with an ERC Consolidator grant. The European Research Council will fund Pr. Standaert's research project on Security Without Obscurity for Reliable Devices (SWORD) for the 5 next years. More details here
- François-Xavier Standaert elected as IACR director. The International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) is a non-profit scientific organization whose purpose is to further research in cryptology and related fields. All IACR decisions are made by its Board of Director and Pr. Standaert has been elected for a term of three years. More details here
- Cryptographic Key Length Recommendation: http://www.keylength.com/
- Check the website of the Cyber Security Coalition
Latest publications
Florentin Rochet. Scaling up Anonymous Network with Efficient Nanopayment Channels, DE GRUYTER OPEN, July 2020 BibTeX
Davide Bellizia, Simone Bongiovanni, Mauro Olivieri, and Giuseppe Scotti. SC-DDPL: A Novel Standard-Cell Based Approach for Counteracting Power Analysis Attacks in the Presence of Unbalanced Routing, In IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, March 2020, 10.1109/TCSI.2020.2979831 PDF BibTeX
Itamar Levi, Davide Bellizia, and François-Xavier Standaert. Beyond algorithmic noise or how to shuffle parallel implementations?, In International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, February 2020 BibTeX
Quentin De Coninck, François Michel, Maxime Piraux, Florentin Rochet, Thomas Given-Wilson, Axel Legay, Olivier Pereira, and Olivier Bonaventure. Pluginizing QUIC, In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the {ACM} Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM) 2019, August 2019 BibTeX
Florentin Rochet, Olivier Bonaventure, and Olivier Pereira. Flexible Anonymous Network, In 12th Workshop on Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (HotPETs 2019), July 2019 BibTeX