Section: New Results

Highlights of the Year

The team published [20] improved single-key attacks on reduced-round AES: AES is currently the most widespread block cipher standard, it is implemented in Intel processors.

The team also showed [18] how to speed-up a well-known public-key cryptanalysis technique: finding small roots of univariate polynomial congruences. This technique is used to break special cases of the RSA cryptosystem.

Phong Nguyen was Program co-Chair of the 33rd IACR Eurocrypt Conference (EUROCRYPT 2014) [22] .