Events

Seminars, conferences, workshops..., find the agenda of scientific activities carried out by CREACH LABS

    • Seminar

    • SoSysec

    Opening Pandora's Box: White-Box Attacks on Microsoft's PhotoDNA Perceptual Hash Function

    • June 05, 2026 (11:00 - 12:00)

    • Inria Center of the University of Rennes - Aurigny room

    Speaker : Diane Leblanc-Albarel - KU Leuven

    PhotoDNA is a widely deployed perceptual hash function used for the detection of illicit content such as Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). In this talk, I will present our paper introducing the first mathematical description of Alleged PhotoDNA, a function that reproduces the outputs of PhotoDNA. Our analysis reveals several structural weaknesses: the function is piece-wise linear and[…]

    • Cryptography

    • Privacy

    • Seminar

    • Cryptography

    Cryptanalysis of full BEANIE

    • June 05, 2026 (13:45 - 14:45)

    • IRMAR - Université de Rennes - Campus Beaulieu Bat. 22, RDC, Rennes - Amphi Lebesgue

    Speaker : Xavier Bonnetain - Inria

    BEANIE is a tweakable block cipher recently published at ToSC aiming for memory encryption of microcontroller units. In line with this goal, it handles small plaintexts of only 32 bits and has a low latency. In this paper, we propose the first third-party analysis of the two variants of BEANIE. By carefully leveraging structural properties of the cipher and taking advantage of its distinctive[…]

    • Cryptography

    • Symmetrical primitive

    • Seminar

    • SoSysec

    Towards More Secure Large Language Models

    • June 12, 2026 (11:00 - 12:00)

    • Inria Center of the University of Rennes - Petri/Turing room

    Speaker : Raouf Kerkouche - Inria Lille

    Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved considerable success and are now widely used across multiple domains, highlighting their transformative impact on both technology and society. However, this widespread adoption also exposes LLMs to numerous security threats that can alter model behavior or degrade overall performance. To mitigate these threats, most research has focused on alignment[…]

    • Machine learning

    • Seminar

    • SemSecuElec

    Chamois: Formally verified compilation for optimisation and security

    • June 26, 2026 (10:00 - 11:00)

    • IETR - University of Rennes - Campus de BEAULIEU - Bâtiment 11D, salle numéro 18

    Speaker : David MONNIAUX - CNRS - Verimag

    Embedded programs (including those on smart cards) are often developed in C and then compiled for the embedded processor. Sometimes they are modified by hand to incorporate countermeasures (fault attacks, etc.), but care must be taken to ensure that this does not disrupt normal program execution and that the countermeasure is actually adequate for blocking the attacks.In the process, it is[…]

    • SemSecuElec

    • Fault injection

    • Formal methods

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Focus

Conference on Informational Influence Warfare

Informational Influence Warfare (L2I) encompasses the entire range of techniques used to detect and counter adversary information maneuvers in cyberspace. It is based on a national doctrine that takes into account regulatory, ethical, and geopolitical considerations, as well as a vast technical corpus that includes automatic language processing, large-scale data mining, analysis of collective dynamics on social networks, and more traditional cybersecurity techniques such as protection and attack methods for information systems.

The DGA's Maitrise de l'Information technical center is the MinArm's technical expert in cybersecurity and, as such, has developed expertise in the field of L2I. In collaboration with the Defense Innovation Agency, we wish to share our main technical concerns, challenges, and use cases with the academic research community in order to facilitate the implementation of collaborative projects that we will fund through our research support mechanisms, particularly Creach Labs.

The objective of this conference is to bring together all teams within the scope of CREACH LABS as well as MinArm experts working on L2I to take a cross-look at the main research challenges and facilitate the implementation of collaborative projects, allow PhD students and post-docs to present their project progress, and provide teams with a comprehensive view of ongoing work and strategic directions to take.

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Publications

Articles, theses, white papers... find scientific publications resulting from research works and scientific collaborations supported by CREACH LABS.

    • White paper

    « Security supervision »

    Security supervision is a field initiated in the 1980s. Even if the foundations of the field have remained unchanged for 40 years, the techniques for implementing them have of course greatly evolved.

    • Article

    « Energy backdoor attack to deep neural networks »

    The transition to deep learning has led to a significant surge in computing complexity and energy consumption. This trend has prompted the adoption of acceleration hardware like tensor processing units (TPUs) and application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) to facilitate energy-efficient deployment on edge and mobile devices. However, recent studies have revealed their vulnerability to energy[…]

    • Article

    « BAGUETTE: Hunting for Evidence of Malicious Behavior in Dynamic Analysis Reports »

    Malware analysis consists of studying a sample of suspicious code to understand it and producing a representation or explanation of this code that can be used by a human expert or a clustering/classification/detection tool. 
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