Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the Year

V. Verneuil's PhD thesis work, co-supervised by K. Belabas and carried out in the company Inside Secure, has been awarded the “Prix de thèse AMIES 2013” of AMIES, l'Agence pour les Mathématiques en Interaction avec l'Entreprise et la Société. The prize recognises outstanding work securing elliptic curve cryptographic systems against side-channel attacks on smartcards and an exceptional integration into the company, see http://www.agence-maths-entreprises.fr/a/?q=fr/node/292 .

After two years of development, version 2.6.0 of the Pari/GP computer algebra system has been released, incorporating numerous improvements related to the programming language and the implementation of number fields, finite fields and elliptic curves. The new release maintains Pari/GP as the world leader for number theoretic computations.