Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• WCC 2019, March 31 - April 5, 2019, St Jacut-de-la-Mer, France: A. Canteaut, program co-chair

• Eurocrypt 2020, Zagreb, Croatia: A. Canteaut, program co-chair

• Workshop on quantum code design and architectures (kick-off meeting of the European project QCDA), November 5-6, 2018, Paris (France): A. Leverrier.

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Training School on Symmetric Cryptography and Blockchain: February 19-23, 2018, Torremolinos (Spain): A. Canteaut.

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

As a co-editor-in-chief of the journal IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, María Naya-Plasencia served as a program chair of the conference Fast Software Encryption (FSE), held in Bruges March 2018. Gaëtan Leurent will serve as a co-editor-in-chief of IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology starting from 2019.

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• FSE 2018: March 5-7, 2018, Bruges, Belgium (C. Boura, A. Canteaut, G. Leurent, M. Naya-Plasencia, L. Perrin);

• CryptoAction Symposium 2018: April 4-5, Sutomore, Montenegro (A. Canteaut);

• PQCrypto 2018: April 9-11, 2018, Fort Lauderdale, USA, (M. Naya-Plasencia, N. Sendrier, J.P. Tillich);

• CT-RSA 2018: April 16-20, 2018, San Francisco, USA (M. Naya-Plasencia);

• Eurocrypt 2018: April 29- May 3, 2018, Tel Aviv, Israel (M. Naya-Plasencia);

• WAIFI 2018: June 14-16, 2018, Bergen, Norway, (L. Perrin)

• SAC 2018: August 13-14, 2018, Calgary, Canada, (G. Leurent);

• Crypto 2018: August 17-19, 2018, Santa Barbara, USA, (M. Naya-Plasencia);

• QCrypt 2018: August 27-31, 2018, Shanghai, China, (A. Leverrier);

• TQC 2018: July 16-18, 2018, Sydney, Australia, (A. Leverrier);

• QTech 2018: September 5-7, 2018, Paris, France, (A. Leverrier);

• SCN 2018: September 5-7, 2018, Amalfi, Italy, (G. Leurent);

• AQIS 2018: September 8-12, 2018, Nagoya, Japan, (A. Leverrier);

• SETA 2018: October 1-6, 2018, Hong-Kong, China, (P. Charpin);

• Asiacrypt 2018: December 02-06, 2018, Brisbane, Australia, (G. Leurent);

• CT-RSA 2019: March 4-8, 2019, San Francisco, USA, (L. Perrin)

• FSE 2019: March 25-28, 2019, Paris, France (C. Boura, A. Canteaut, G. Leurent, M. Naya-Plasencia)

• WCC 2019: March 31 - April 5, 2019, St Jacut-de-la-Mer, France, (A. Canteaut chair, P. Charpin, N. Sendrier, J.P. Tillich);

• PQCrypto 2019: May 8-10, 2019, Chongqing, China, (J.P. Tillich);

• CBC 2019: May 18-19, Darmstadt, Germany, (J.P. Tillich);

• Eurocrypt 2019: May 19-23, 2019, Darmstadt, Germany (C. Boura)

• ISIT 2019: July 7-12, 2019, Paris, France, (J.P. Tillich);

• CHES 2019: August 25-28, 2019, Atlanta, USA, (G. Leurent);

• Eurocrypt 2020: Zagreb, Croatia (A. Canteaut, PC co-chair).

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• Designs, Codes and Cryptography, associate editor: P. Charpin.

• Finite Fields and Applications, associate editor: A. Canteaut, P. Charpin.

• Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing, associate editor: A. Canteaut.

• IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, associate editors: C. Boura, A. Canteaut, G. Leurent, M. Naya-Plasencia.

• IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, associate editors: G. Leurent.

• Advances in Mathematics of Communications, associate editors: N. Sendrier and J.P. Tillich

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• Remote Referee - step 2- ERC-2018-CoG (A. Canteaut)

• Remote Referee - step 2- ERC-2018-STG (M. Naya-Plasencia)

Invited Talks

• A. Canteaut, Desperately Seeking Sboxes, Eurocrypt 2018, Tel Aviv, Israel, April 29 - May 3 2018.

• M. Naya-Plasencia, New Results on Quantum Symmetric Cryptanalysis, QUANTALGO Quantum Algorithms and Applications Workshop, 2018, Paris, France, September 25 - 28, 2018.

• M. Naya-Plasencia, New Results on Quantum Symmetric Cryptanalysis, CrossFYRE Workshop, 2018, Surrey, UK, September 13 - 14, 2018.

• M. Naya-Plasencia, New Results on Quantum Symmetric Cryptanalysis, Journées Nationales 2018 du GDR Informatique Mathématique, Apr 2018, Palaiseau, France

• J.P. Tillich Schémas cryptographiques à clé publique à base de codes correcteurs proposés à la compétition du NIST, Journées Nationales 2018 du Pré-GDR Sécurité Informatique, June 1, 2018.

The members of the project-team have also been invited to give talks to some workshops or international seminars, including:

C. Boura, A. Canteaut, J. Jean and V. Suder, On Sboxes sharing the same DDT, Dagstuhl Seminar 18021 Symmetric Cryptography, Jan 2018, Dagstuhl, Germany

A. Canteaut L'insoutenable légèreté du chiffrement, Journées Scientifiques Inria 2018, June 2018, Bordeaux, France

A. Canteaut and L. Perrin On CCZ-Equivalence, Extended-Affine Equivalence and Function Twisting, BFA 2018 - 3rd International Workshop on Boolean Functions and their Applications, Jun 2018, Loen, Norway

A. Chailloux, Relativistic commitment and zero-knowledge proofs, 17th Bellairs Crypto-Workshop 2018, Mar 2018, Holetown, Barbados.

T. Fuhr, M. Naya-Plasencia and Y. Rotella, New Results on Modified Versions of Ketje Jr, Dagstuhl Seminar 18021 Symmetric Cryptography, Jan 2018, Dagstuhl, Germany

G. Leurent, MDS Matrices with Lightweight Circuits, The Challenges of Lightweight Cryptanalysis, April 2018, Tel Aviv, Israel.

G. Leurent, Security Issues with Small Block Sizes, Lightweight Crypto Day, April 2018, Tel Aviv, Israel.

G. Leurent The Missing Difference Problem, Flexible Symmetric Cryptography, March 2018, Leiden, Netherlands.

M. Naya-Plasencia, Quantum Safe Symmetric Cryptography, Flexible Symmetric Cryptography Lorentz Center Workshop, 2018, Leiden, Netherlands, March 19 - 23, 2018.

M. Naya-Plasencia, Symmetric lightweight primitives: (Design and) Cryptanalysis, Lightweight Crypto Day, April 2018, Tel Aviv, Israel.

L. Perrin, Generalized Feistel Networks with Optimal Diffusion, Dagstuhl Seminar 18021 Symmetric Cryptography, Jan 2018, Dagstuhl, Germany

L. Perrin, S-Box Reverse-Engineering: Boolean Functions, American/Russian Standards, and Butterflies, CECC 2018 - Central European Conference on Cryptology, Jun 2018, Smolenice, Slovakia.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• A. Canteaut serves as a chair of the steering committee of Fast Software Encryption (FSE).

• A. Canteaut serves on the steering committee of the international competition CAESAR for authenticated encryption (https://competitions.cr.yp.to/caesar.html)

• N. Sendrier serves on the steering committee of Post-quantum cryptography (PQCrypto).

• P. Charpin, N. Sendrier and JP Tillich serve on the steering committee of the WCC conference series.

• A. Leverrier serves on the steering committee of DIM SIRTEQ (réseau francilien pour les technologies quantiques).

Research Administration

• A. Canteaut serves as Head of Science of the Inria Paris research center since September 2017.

• A. Canteaut serves on the Inria Evaluation Committee since September 2017.

• M. Naya-Plasencia and G. Leurent are members of Inria Paris CSD Committee (Comité de suivi doctoral).

• M. Naya-Plasencia is a member of Inria Paris Scientific Hiring Committee (Assignement of PhD, post-doctoral and delegation Inria fundings).

• M. Naya-Plasencia serves as head of the jury for PhD scholarships from EDITE.

• M. Naya-Plasencia serves on the Comité des usagers du projet "rue Barrault".

Committees for the selection of professors, assistant professors and researchers

• Inria Paris Chargés de recherche: A. Canteaut (vice-chair)

• Inria Chargés de recherche (national selection): A. Canteaut

• ISTIC, Rennes, maître de conférence: M. Naya-Plasencia