- Serge Vaudenay
Serge Vaudenay (
5 April 1968 -) is a well-known Frenchcryptographer .Serge Vaudenay entered the
École Normale Supérieure inParis as a "normalien" student in 1989. In 1992, he passed the "agrégation " in mathematics. He did his PhD at the computer science laboratory of École Normale Supérieure, and defended it in 1995 at theUniversity of Paris 7 ; his advisor wasJacques Stern . From 1995 to 1999, he was a senior research fellow atCNRS . In 1999, he moved to a professorship at theÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne where he is at the lead of the Laboratory of Security and Cryptography (LASEC).LASEC is host to two popular security software developed by its members.iChair is developed by Thomas Baignères and Matthieu Finiasz, and is a popular online submission and review server used by manycryptology conferences.Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based onrainbow table s by Philippe Oeschlin. Vaudenay has published several papers related tocryptanalysis and design ofblock cipher s and protocols. He is one of the authors of theIDEA NXT (FOX) algorithm (together with Pascal Junod). Vaudenay also discovered a severe vulnerability in the SSL/TLS protocol. The attack he forged could lead to the interception of the password. He also published a paper about biased statistical properties in theBlowfish cipher and is the author of the best attack on theBluetooth cipher : E0. In 1997 he introduceddecorrelation theory , a system for designing block ciphers to be provably secure against many cryptanalytic attacks.Vaudenay was appointed program chair of
Eurocrypt 2006,PKC 2005,FSE 1998; and in 2006 elected as board member of theInternational Association for Cryptologic Research .External links
* [http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/~vaudenay/ Serge Vaudenay's Homepage]
* [http://lasecwww.epfl.ch LASEC at EPFL]
* [http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/iChair iChair at LASEC]
* [http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net Ophcrack at Sourceforge]
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