Publication

A Message Recognition Protocol Based on Standard Assumptions

Time in cryptography

Time travel has always been a fascinating topic in literature and physics. In cryptography, one may wonder how to keep data confidential for some time. In this dissertation, we will study how to make private information travel to the future. This dissertat ...

EPFL2020

Energy Analysis of Lightweight AEAD Circuits

Subhadeep Banik, Muhammed Fatih Balli, Andrea Felice Caforio

The selection criteria for NIST's Lightweight Crypto Standardization (LWC) have been slowly shifting towards the lightweight efficiency of designs, given that a large number of candidates already establish their security claims on conservative, well-studie ...

2020

Bidirectional Asynchronous Ratcheted Key Agreement with Linear Complexity

Serge Vaudenay, Fatma Betül Durak

Following up mass surveillance and privacy issues, modern secure communication protocols now seek more security such as forward secrecy and post-compromise security. They cannot rely on an assumption such as synchronization, predictable sender/receiver rol ...

Springer2019

On the Security of Two-Round Multi-Signatures

Bryan Alexander Ford, Manu Drijvers, Kasra Edalatnejadkhamene

A multi-signature scheme allows a group of signers to collaboratively sign a message, creating a single signature that convinces a verifier that every individual signer approved the message. The increased interest in technologies to decentralize trust has ...

IEEE Computer Society2019

A Lyra2 FPGA Core for Lyra2REv2-Based Cryptocurrencies

Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Pascal Giard, Michiel Van Beirendonck

Lyra2REv2 is a hashing algorithm that consists of a chain of individual hashing algorithms and it is used as a proof-of-work function in several cryptocurrencies that aim to be ASIC-resistant. The most crucial hashing algorithm in the Lyra2REv2 chain is a ...

IEEE2019

SUNDAE: Small Universal Deterministic Authenticated Encryption for the Internet of Things

Subhadeep Banik

Lightweight cryptography was developed in response to the increasing need to secure devices for the Internet of Things. After significant research effort, many new block ciphers have been designed targeting lightweight settings, optimizing efficiency metri ...

2018

Implications of Position in Cryptography

Handan Kilinç Alper

In our daily lives, people or devices frequently need to learn their location for many reasons as some services depend on the absolute location or the proximity. The outcomes of positioning systems can have critical effects e.g., on military, emergency. Th ...

EPFL2018

On Secure Cloud Computing for Genomic Data: From Storage to Analysis

Zhicong Huang

Although privacy is generally considered to be the right of an individual or group to control information about themselves, such a right has become challenging to protect in the digital era, this is exemplified by the case of cloud-based genomic computing. ...

EPFL2018

Provably Secure Authenticated Encryption

Damian Vizár

Authenticated Encryption (AE) is a symmetric key cryptographic primitive that ensures confidentiality and authenticity of processed messages at the same time. The research of AE as a primitive in its own right started in 2000. The security goals of AE wer ...

EPFL2018

Secure Contactless Payment

Serge Vaudenay, Handan Kilinç Alper

A contactless payment lets a card holder execute payment without any interaction (e.g., entering PIN or signing) between the terminal and the card holder. Even though the security is the first priority in a payment system, the formal security model of cont ...

2018