WELCOME

The Security and Cryptography Laboratory (LASEC) was created at EPFL in 2000. It is part of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (I&C). The main activities of LASEC are research and education on the security of communication and information systems, cryptography, and applications.

LAST PUBLICATIONS

• Expected loss bounds for authentication in constrained channels (INFOCOM 2012)
• Synthetic Linear Analysis: Improved Attacks on CubeHash and Rabbit (ICISC 2011)
• A Note on a Privacy-Preserving Distance-Bounding Protocol (ICICS 2011)
• Efficient Fail-Stop Signatures from the Factoring Assumption (ISC 2011)
• Fast Key Recovery Attack on ARMADILLO1 and Variants (CARDIS 2011)
• Related-Key Attack against Triple Encryption based on Fixed Points (SECRYPT 2011)
• On Hiding a Plaintext Length by Preencryption (ACNS 2011)
• Short Undeniable Signatures Based on Group Homomorphisms (Journal of Cryptology 2011)
• Statistical Attack on RC4: Distinguishing WPA (EUROCRYPT 2011)
• Algebraic, AIDA/Cube and Side Channel Analysis of KATAN Family of Block Ciphers (INDOCRYPT 2010)
• Cryptanalysis of reduced-round MIBS Block cipher (CANS 2010)
• Distinguishing Distributions Using Chernoff Information (ProvSec 2010)
• Discovery and Exploitation of New Biases in RC4 (SAC 2010)
• ARMADILLO: A Multi-purpose Cryptographic Primitive Dedicated to Hardware (CHES 2010)
• Additive Combinatorics and Discrete Logarithm Based Range Protocols (ACISP 2010)
• A Message Recognition Protocol Based on Standard Assumptions (ACNS 2010)
• Practical unconditionally secure two-channel message authentication (Journal of Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 2010)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

[Aug 12, 2011]	Serge Vaudenay won the 46th price (a bicycle saddle) at the 2011 edition of bike-to-work.
[Dec 13, 2010]	PPUR publishes La fracture cryptographique (French), by Serge Vaudenay.
[Dec 12, 2010]	Aslı Bay, Jorge Nakahara Jr., and Serge Vaudenay receive the Best Paper award of the CANS'10 conference for their paper "Cryptanalysis of Reduced-Round MIBS Block Cipher".

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PEOPLE

Professor
Serge Vaudenay
Secretary
Martine Corval
Senior researchers
Ioana Boureanu
Atefeh Mashatan
Katerina Mitrokotsa
Researchers
Aslı Bay
Pouyan Sepehrdad
Petr Sušil