Cryptography and Information Security seek at building tools that enable to secure data and to communicate in a reliable, fair, and private way. Over thirty researchers are active in this field.
Principal Investigators :
Axel Legay, Cristel Pelsser, Olivier Pereira, Thomas Peters, Etienne Rivière, Ramin Sadre, François-Xavier Standaert, Luc Vandendorpe
Research Labs :
Crypto Group, Cloud and Large Scale computing group, Image and Signal Processing Group (ISPGroup), Security and Performance of Networked Systems Group
Research Areas :
The research expertise at UCL, strong of over 30 researchers, covers the various layers of cryptography and its application to information security, namely:
- Design and analysis of strong security protocols: authentication, multiparty computation, voting, provable security, evaluations, ...;
- Design and analysis of efficient and secure cryptographic primitives symmetric and asymmetric encryption, digital signatures, ... ;
- Efficient implementations of cryptographic primitives under various environmental constraints, both in software and hardware smart card, RFID, FPGA, ASIC, sensor networks, ...;
- Implementation-related attacks (fault injection, side-channel) and countermeasures (distance-bounding protocols, masking, ...);
- Practical attacks against security applications: time-memory tradeoff, biometric passport, ...;
- Security from the physical layer: information theoretic cryptography, cooperative communications, ...;
- Algebra: number theory, algebraic geometry, quadratic forms, algebras over arbitrary fields, ...;
- Privacy-related issues at all levels ;
- Computer security: viruses, spam, distributed attacks, wireless networks, ...
Most recent publications
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