Visits of International Scientists

Internships

Visits to International Teams

Research stays abroad

Thanks to the support of CentraleSupélec, Christophe Bidan has joined the ETS (École Supérieure de Technologie) of Montréal from july 2014 to july 2015 for working with Prof. Jean-Marc Robert. This stay results from a collaboration that has been initiated 2 years ago when Prof. Jean-Marc Robert has spent 4 months (from september to december 2012) in the CIDRE research group. The conducted research has focused on the use of secure multi-party computation to ensure privacy. Specifically, under the co-supervision of Aurélien Dupin, master student at ETS, we focused on the use of secure multi-party computation to provide proof of localization while ensuring privacy of the participants. An article is being written, and a co-supervised thesis should begin shortly.

From September 2014 to May 2015, Antoine Guellier has joined the "Securing Cyberspace" team leaded by Prof. Batten, at Deakin University (Melbourne, Australia). This stay is possible thanks to the international outgoing fellowships of Rennes Métropole and of the UEB (Université Européenne de Bretagne). This doctoral mobility was the opportunity to start a collaboration with personnel from Deakin University, as well as Radboud University (The Netherlands). Research outputs include a paper submitted to the SPT-IOT workshop (IEEE PERCOM venue). Additionally, by participating in the life of the laboratory and in several academic and information security events based in Melbourne, Antoine Guellier was able to build a network abroad. Through discussion and interactions, he was able to confront the contributions in his thesis with people of different horizons, and start new ones.

In March 2015, Deepak Subramanian has joined, as a Visiting Scholar, the "Faculty of Engineering Science" at KU Leuven in Belgian. During this stay, Deepak Subramanian worked on the topic of WebRTC security analysis with Prof. Frank Piessens, Willem De Greof, and Dr. Lieven Desmet. The objectives was to perform a practical analysis of the current WebRTC framework with the motivation of identifying the various shortcomings. The initial results showed that WebRTC is quite robust and built on strong foundations (based on legacy protocols that also form the foundations of the SIP telephony stack). However, the study also showed that some key modules were made optional in the draft and the implementations are quite ambiguous presently. These results were resumed in a paper that has been submitted and accepted to the ACM SEC@SAC 2016.