Anne CANTEAUT

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Anne CANTEAUT Inria Paris équipe-projet SECRET Building C, 2nd floor, Room C206 2 rue Simone Iff CS 42112 75589 Paris Cedex 12 tél. : +33 (0)1.80.49.42.20

Researcher in the COSMIQ project-team at INRIA.

Honorary Doctor at the University of Bergen (Norway).

Chair of the Inria Evaluation Committee (2019-2023).

Scientific leader of the project-team SECRET (2007-2019).

My main research interest is symmetric cryptography.

Here are my recent publications, my main publications before 2014 and my habilitation thesis.

• Anonymous tracing, a dangerous oxymoron: A risk analysis for non-specialists of automated contact tracing using a smartphone application, 2020.
• On the origin of trust - struggle for secure cryptography [slides]: talk at dotSecurity 2016
• introductory paper on cryptography with Françoise Lévy-dit-Véhel and Graham Norton. [French version published in "L'Armement"]
• Articles on stream ciphers that I have been writing for the Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security, H. van Tilborg, ed, Springer, 2005: A5/1, Berlekamp-Massey algorithm, Combination generator, Correlation attack, Fast correlation attack, Filter generator, Inversion attack, Linear complexity, Linear consistency attack, Linear cryptanalysis for stream ciphers, Linear feedback shift register, Linear syndrome attack, Minimal polynomial, Running-key, Stream cipher.
• Other outreach videos and papers in French.

• Saturnin: a block cipher and a suite of operating modes, 2nd-round candidate to the lightweight cryptography competition launched by NIST.
• BLOC project on the design and analysis of block ciphers. This includes a library implementing the main ligtweight block ciphers.
• ICT COST action IC1306 : Cryptography for Secure Digital Interaction. Co-chair of the working group on cryptographic primitives.
• Shabal, a hash function proposal to the SHA-3 competition launched by NIST for defining a new hash function standard :
  • Shabal is one of 14 propositions selected for the second round of the competition (among 64 candidates);
  • Shabal est en demi-finale ! on LinuxFr.org, July 2009 (in French);
  • Specifications of Shabal;
  • Presentation of Shabal to the first SHA-3 candidate conference (February 2009, Leuven, Belgium);
  • Website of Shabal, including the reference implementation.
• ECRYPT European network of excellence, especially the reports of the symmetric techniques virtual lab:
  • AES Security Report
  • Algebraic cryptanalysis of symmetric primitives
  • Ongoing Research Areas in Symmetric Cryptography
• eSTREAM, the ECRYPT stream cipher project, especially the stream ciphers I have co-designed:
  • DECIM for hardware applications [v2] [v1] ,
  • SOSEMANUK for software applications [pdf] [C source] [Java source].

• Jules Baudrin
• Aurélien Boeuf
• Christina Boura (PhD 2012). Associate professor at university of Versailles
• Clémence Bouvier
• Mathieu Cluzeau (PhD 2006). Engineer.
• Daniel Coggia (PhD 2021). DGA.
• Sébastien Duval (PhD 2018). Associate professor, Université de Lorraine.
• Stéphane Jacob (PhD 2012). Engineer, Apple.
• Benjamin Lac (PhD 2018).
• Virginie Lallemand (PhD 2016). Researcher at CNRS, Loria
• María Naya Plasencia (PhD 2009). Senior researcher at Inria
• Yann Rotella (PhD 2018). Associate professor at university of Versailles
• Joëlle Roué (PhD 2015). Teacher.
• Ferdinand Sibleyras (PhD 2020). NTT, Japan
• Marion Videau (PhD 2005). Associate professor at University Henri Poincaré, Nancy 1, and chief scientific officer at Quarkslab.

• chair of the steering commitee of FSE. LI>area editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory for "Cryptography and Sequences", associate editor in 2005-2008 and 2018-2020.
• member of the editorial board of the Journal of Cryptology
• member of the editorial board of the IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
• associate editor for "Finite Fields and their Applications".
• associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory in "Cryptography and Complexity" (2005-2008) and in "Cryptography" since 2018.
• associate editor for Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing.

• Crypto 2024, August 18-22, 2024, Santa Barbara, USA.
• Eurocrypt 2024, May 26-30, 2024, Zurich, Switzerland.
• 2023 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, TPC co-chair, St-Malo, France, April 23-28, 2023.
• WCC 2022, Rostock, Germany, March 7-11, 2022.
• Eurocrypt 2021, program chair, Zagreb, Croatia, October 17-21, 2021.
• Eurocrypt 2020, program chair, virtual, May 10-14, 2020.
• FSE 2020, Athens, Greece, March 22-26, 2020.
• WCC 2019, program chair, St Jacut-de-la-mer, France, March 31-April 5, 2019.
• FSE 2019, Paris, March 25-28, 2019.
• FSE 2018, Bruges, Belgium, March 5-7, 2018.
• Fq13 Gaeta, Italy, 4-10 June 2017.
• FSE 2017, Tokyo, Japan, March 5-8, 2017.
• Asiacrypt 2016, Hanoi, Vietnam, 4-8 December 2016.
• YACC 2016, Porquerolles, France, 6-10 June 2016
• Crypto 2016, Santa Barbara, USA, August 14-18, 2016.
• Waifi 2016, Ghent, Belgium, July 13-15, 2016.
• Indocrypt 2015 Bangalore, India, December 6-9, 2015.
• Fq12 Saratoga, USA, 13-17 July 2015.
• Eurocrypt 2015 Sofia, Bulgaria, 26-30 April 2015.
• FSE 2015 Istanbul, Turkey, 8-11 March 2015.
• Indocrypt 2014 New Delhi, India, December 14-17, 2014.
• SAC 2014 Montreal, Canada, August 2014.
• ACNS 2014 Lausanne, Switzerland, June 10-13, 2014.
• FSE 2014 London, UK, March 3-5, 2014.
• Asiacrypt 2013 Bangalore, India, December 1-5, 2013.
  
• SAC 2013 Burnaby, Canada, August 14-16, 2013.
  
• WCC 2013 Bergen, Norway, April 15-19, 2013.
  
• FSE 2013 Singapore, March 10-13, 2013.
  
• Journees C2, Dinard, France, October 7-12, 2012.
  
• YACC 2012, Porquerolles, September 24-28, 2012.
  
• SAC 2012, Windsor, Canada, August 16-17, 2012.
  
• FSE 2012, Washington DC, USA, March 19-21, 2012
  
• SAC 2011, Ryerson University, Ontario, Canada, August 11-12, 2011.
  
• WCC 2011, Paris, France, April 11-15, 2011.
  
• Skew 2011, Lyngby, Denmark, February 16-17, 2011.
  
• Africacrypt 2011, Dakar, Senegal, July 4-8, 2011.
  
• FSE 2011, Lyngby, Denmark, February, 14-16, 2011.
  
• Indocrypt 2010, Hyderabad, India, December 12-15, 2010.
  
• SAC 2010, Waterloo, Canada, August 12-13, 2010.
  
• YACC 2010, Porquerolles, France, October 4-8, 2010.
  
• Eurocrypt 2010, Nice, France, May 30 - June 3, 2010.
• WCC 2009 - workshop on coding and cryptography , Loftus, Norway, May 10-15, 2009.
  
• Africacrypt 2009, Gammarth, Tunisie, June 21-25, 2009.
  
• Indocrypt 2008, Kharagpur, India, December 14-17, 2008.
  
• SCC 2008, First International Conference on Symbolic Computation and Cryptography Beijing, China, April 28-30, 2008.
• SASC 2008 (The State of the Art of Stream Ciphers), Lausanne, Suisse, February 13-14, 2008
  
• AfricaCrypt 2008, Casablanca, Maroc, June 11-14, 2008.
• FSE 2008, Lausanne, Suisse, February 10-13, 2008.
• ECRYPT Hash functions workshop, Barcelona, Spain, May 24-25 , 2007.
• EUROCRYPT 2007, Barcelona, Spain, May 20-24, 2007.
• ISIT 2007 (2007 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory), Nice, France, June 24-29, 2007.
• Indocrypt 2006 , Kolkata, India, Dec. 11-13, 2006.
• SETA'06 (Beijing, China, Sept. 24-28 2006).
• FSE 2006 (Graz, Austria, March 15-17 2006).
• SASC 2006 - Stream Ciphers Revisited (Leuven, Belgium, Feb. 2-3 2006.)
• SKEW - Symmetric Key Encryption Workshop (Aarhus, Denmark, May 26-27 2005).
• BeNeLuxFra Conference in Mathematics (Gand, Belgium, May 20-22 2005).
• FSE 2005 (Paris, France, Feb. 21-23 2005)
• Indocrypt 2004 (Chennai (Madras), India, Dec. 20-22 2004).
• CRYPTO'04, (Santa Barbara, USA, Aug. 15-19 2004).
• YACC'04 (Yet Another Conference on Cryptography) Porquerolles, France, June 1-5 2004.
• Indocrypt 2003 (New Delhi, India, Dec. 8-10 2003).
• FSE 2003 (Lund, Sweden, Feb. 24-26 2003).
• WCC 2003 (International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography) (March 24-28 2003, Versailles).
• YACC 2002 Porquerolles Island, France, June 3-7 2002.
• WCC 2001 (International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography) (Jan. 8-12 2001, Paris).
• 27e École de printemps d'informatique théorique : codage et cryptographie
  (31 may - 4 june 1999, Batz-sur-mer, Loire-Atlantique).

Information security and French laws

• critical review of existing laws related to information security by the Asphales Project, funded by the French ministry of research (in French)
• Recommendations on Record Managements and Electronic Records by the Forum des Droits sur l'Internet (in French).

• Lecture Notes on C programming in the " Master Recherche" and "Master Pro" in Security at the University of Limoges.
• Error-correcting codes and applications to cryptography, Master MPRI Paris (with Alain Couvreur).
• Lecture on Boolean functions given at the University of Bochum, Mars 2016 (3-hour video) and the corresponding lecture notes.

• IACR, International Association for Cryptologic Research.
• National seminar on "Coding and Cryptography".
• Coding and Cryptography national group, related to GDR Informatique Mathématique et Sécurité.
• Société Informatique de France.

• Animath including Journées Filles & Maths and RV des jeunes mathématiciennes et informaticiennes
• Femmes et maths.
• Femmes en Sciences and a panel discussion (in French, starting 4:45 on the video).
• Al-Kindi competition, for high-schools.