Section: Dissemination

Popularization

The book Guide to Pairing-Based Cryptography [27] has been published by CHAPMAN and HALL/CRC. D. Robert wrote with Sorina Ionica the chapter “Pairings” of this book. This book aims to help Engineers understand and implement pairing based cryptography; in the Chapter “Pairings”, D. Robert give a self contained definition and proof of the Weil and Tate pairing; including how to handle divisors with non disjoint support (this is often skipped in scientific papers but is important for practical implementations).

A. Page gave a popularization talk “À la découverte de la cryptologie : la science du secret” during the Fête de la Science event. Two groups of high school students and one group of Inria agents participated in this activity. Following this talk, three high school students decided to work on the RSA cryptosystem for their TPE essay and came back to the IMB to meet A. Page and talk about this topic in greater detail.