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  • SoK: Security of the Ascon Modes

    • June 20, 2025 (13:45 - 14:45)

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

    Speaker : Charlotte Lefevre - Radboud University

    The Ascon authenticated encryption scheme and hash function of Dobraunig et al (Journal of Cryptology 2021) were recently selected as winner of the NIST lightweight cryptography competition. The mode underlying Ascon authenticated encryption (Ascon-AE) resembles ideas of SpongeWrap, but not quite, and various works have investigated the generic security of Ascon-AE, all covering different attack[…]
  • A non-comparison oblivious sort and its application to private k-NN

    • June 20, 2025 (11:00 - 12:00)

    • Inria Center of the University of Rennes - - Room TBD

    Speaker : Sofiane Azogagh - UQÀM

    Sorting is a fundamental subroutine of many algorithms and as such has been studied for decades. A well-known result is the Lower Bound Theorem, which states that no comparison-based sorting algorithm can do better than O(nlog(n)) in the worst case. However, in the fifties, new sorting algorithms that do not rely on comparisons were introduced such as counting sort, which can run in linear time[…]
    • Cryptography

    • SoSysec

    • Privacy

    • Databases

    • Secure storage

  • La crypto-graphie et les crypto-monnaies

    • June 13, 2025 (13:45 - 14:45)

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

    Speaker : Daniel Augot - INRIA Saclay—Île-de-France

    De nos jours, la requête «crypto» dans un moteur de recherche renvoieaux cryptomonnaies. Mais «crypto means crypto», et on peut se poser laquestion des liens pertinents entre les deux domaines. D'un coté, le monde des cryptomonnaies et de la technologiesous-jacente s'est développé et évolue encore en dehors du mondeacadémique. Il faut suivre d'un coté des posts de blog, des fils dediscussion X[…]
  • [CANCELLED] Black-Box Collision Attacks on Widely Deployed Perceptual Hash Functions and Their Consequences

    • June 13, 2025 (11:00 - 12:00)

    • Inria Center of the University of Rennes - Aurigny room

    Speaker : Diane Leblanc-Albarel - KU Leuven

    [CANCELLED] Perceptual hash functions identify multimedia content by mapping similar inputs to similar outputs. They are widely used for detecting copyright violations and illegal content but lack transparency, as their design details are typically kept secret. Governments are considering extending the application of these functions to Client-Side Scanning (CSS) for end-to-end encrypted services:[…]
    • Cryptography

    • SoSysec

    • Protocols

  • Oblivious Transfer from Zero-Knowledge Proofs (or how to achieve round-optimal quantum Oblivious Transfer without structure)

    • June 06, 2025 (13:45 - 14:45)

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

    Speaker : Léo Colisson - Université Grenoble Alpes

    We provide a generic construction to turn any classical Zero-Knowledge (ZK) protocol into a composable oblivious transfer (OT) protocol (the protocol itself involving quantum interactions), mostly lifting the round-complexity properties and security guarantees (plain-model/statistical security/unstructured functions…) of the ZK protocol to the resulting OT protocol. Such a construction is unlikely[…]
    • Cryptography

  • Soutenance de thèse : Cryptanalyse de schémas de cryptographie à clé publique (Cryptanalysis of public-key cryptosystems)

    • May 23, 2025 (14:00 - 16:00)

    • Amphi P, ISTIC, bâtiment 12D

    Speaker : Paul Kirchner - IRISA

    Résumé : La cryptanalyse de schémas de cryptographie à clé publique repose sur un ensemble de techniques algorithmiques et algébriques en théorie des nombres. Dans une première partie de cette thèse, nous présentons des améliorations de l’algorithme LLL, dû à Lenstra, Lenstra et Lovasz pour réduire un réseau euclidien, c’est-à-dire réduire la norme et orthogonaliser le plus possible les vecteurs[…]
    • Cryptography