LASEC

[Dec 13, 2010]	PPUR publishes La fracture cryptographique (French), by Serge Vaudenay.
[Dec 12, 2010]	Asli 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".
[Aug 27, 2010]	Martin Vuagnoux defends his PhD entitled Computer Aided Cryptanalysis from Ciphers to Side Channels.
[Aug 25, 2010]	Claude Barral defends his PhD entitled Biometrics & Security: Combining Fingerprints, Smart Cards and Cryptography.
[Jan 22, 2010]	LASEC celebrates its 10th anniversary.
[Dec 4, 2009]	Serge Vaudenay was elected Director of the IACR for a second 3-year term 2010-12.
[Dec 1, 2009]	Jean-Philippe Aumasson defends his PhD entitled Design and analysis of symmetric cryptographic algorithms.
[Oct 2, 2009]	Sylvain Pasini defends his PhD thesis entitled Secure communication using authenticated channels.
[Aug 12, 2009]	Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini receive the Oustanding Student Paper Award of the 18th Usenix Security Symposium for their paper "Compromising Electromagnetic Emanations of Wired and Wireless Keyboards". more information
[Nov 14, 2008]	Thomas Baignères defends his PhD thesis entitled Quantitative Security of Block Ciphers: Designs and Cryptanalysis Tools.
[Oct 20, 2008]	Videos of our (wired) keyboard attacks based on compromising electromagnetic emanations
[June 10, 2008]	Publication of the proceedings Progress in Cryptology - Africacrypt 2008 edited by Serge Vaudenay
[Apr 18, 2008]	Simon Fischer defends his PhD thesis entitled Analysis of Lightweight Stream Ciphers.
[Feb 11, 2008]	LASEC organizes the 15th Fast Software Encryption Workshop (FSE 2008)
[Mar 28, 2007]	Serge Vaudenay appointed as a full professor of security and cryptography (press release: http://actualites.epfl.ch/presseinfo-com?id=425)
[Dec 15, 2006]	Jean Monnerat defends his PhD thesis entitled Short Undeniable Signatures: Design, Analysis, and Applications
[Dec 5, 2006]	Serge Vaudenay was elected Director of the IACR for a 3-year term 2007-09
[Aug 21, 2006]	Autodafe, a next generation fuzzer framework able to uncover automatically buffer overflows, has been publicly released
[May 29, 2006]	Publication of the proceedings Advances in Cryptology - Eurocrypt 2006 edited by Serge Vaudenay
[Apr 13, 2006]	Yi Lu defends her PhD thesis entitled Applied Stream Ciphers in Mobile Communications
[Apr 3, 2006]	iChair, the ultimate conference submission/review server software, has a brand new website.
[Apr 1, 2006]	Sylvain Pasini received the Kudelski prize for his Master project done at LASEC entitled Secure Communications over Insecure Channels using an Authenticated Channel
[Dec 12, 2005]	Gildas Avoine defends his PhD thesis entitled Cryptography in Radio Frequency Identification and Fair Exchange Protocols
[Dec 06, 2005]	SourceForge spreads the version 2.1 of Ophcrack, the fastest Windows password cracker, developed by Philippe Oechslin
[Nov 18, 2005]	Xtoken, an application that fights spam and that has been developped at LASEC is now available on SourceForge
[Nov 07, 2005]	Publication of A Classical Introduction to Cryptography - Exercise Book by T. Baignères, P. Junod, Y. Lu, J. Monnerat, and S. Vaudenay
[Sep 30, 2005]	Simon Künzli, Pascal Junod, and Willi Meier received at Mycrypt 2005 the best paper award for their paper entitled Distinguishing attacks on T-functions
[Sep 28, 2005]	Publication of the proceedings Progress in Cryptology - Mycrypt 2005 edited by Ed Dawson and Serge Vaudenay
[Sep 05, 2005]	Publication of A Classical Introduction to Cryptography by Serge Vaudenay
[Feb 04, 2005]	Pascal Junod defends his Phd thesis entitled Statistical Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers
[Avr 09, 2005]	Martin Vuagnoux received the Kudelski prize for his Master project done at the Cambridge University (UK) and entitled: "AUTODAFE an act of Software torture"
[Jan 23, 2005]	Publication of the proceedings Public Key Cryptography - PKC 2005 edited by Serge Vaudenay
[Jan 23, 2005]	LASEC organizes the 8th International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography (PKC 2005)
[Nov 01, 2004]	Publication of Sécurité informatique, Exercices corrigés by G. Avoine, P. Junod, and Ph. Oechslin
[Aug 27, 2004]	Gildas Avoine won the best student paper award at the conference Cardis 2004 for his paper entitled Privacy issues in RFID banknote protection schemes
[Nov 13, 2003]	LASEC organizes the 6th IFIP TC-11 WG 11.5 Working Conference on Integrity and Internal Control in Information Systems (IICIS 2003) together with LBD.
[Oct 10, 2003]	LASEC announces a new block cipher family developed for Mediacrypt AG
[Feb 20, 2003]	LASEC reveals a flaw in SSL/TLS. This flaw has been slashdotted
[Aug 16, 2001]	Publication of the proceedings Selected Areas in Cryptography: 8th Annual International Workshop edited by Serge Vaudenay and Amr M. Youssef
[Jun 01, 2001]	Publication of Algorithmique et optimisation : Exercices corrigés by Alain Darte and Serge Vaudenay
[Jul 04, 2000]	LASEC proposes an attack against the famous SSL, which is based on the birthday paradox