Section: Research Program

Symmetric Cryptography

Since the recruiting of Marine Minier in September 2016 as a Professor at Université of Lorraine, and of Virginie Lallemand as a CNRS researcher in October 2018, a new research domain has emerged in the CARAMBA team: symmetric key cryptology. The aim is to design and analyze symmetric key cryptographic primitives focusing on the following particular aspects:

• the use of constraint programming for the cryptanalysis, especially of block ciphers and the AES standard;

• the design of lightweight cryptographic primitives well-suited for constraint environment such as micro-controllers, wireless sensors, etc.

• white-box cryptography and software obfuscation methods to protect services execution on dedicated platforms.