Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

ANR

• ANR BLOC ($10/11\to 03/16$)

  Design and Analysis of block ciphers dedicated to constrained environments

  ANR program: Ingénierie numérique et sécurité

  Partners: INSA Lyon, Inria (project-team SECRET), University of Limoges (XLIM), CryptoExperts

  446 kEuros

  http://bloc.project.citi-lab.fr

  The BLOC project aims at providing strong theoretical and practical results in the domain of cryptanalysis and design of block ciphers.

• ANR KISS ($12/11\to 02/16$)

  Keep your personal Information Safe and Secure

  ANR program: Ingénierie numérique et sécurité

  Partners: Inria (project-teams SMIS and SECRET), LIRIS, Gemalto, University of Versailles-St Quentin, Conseil Général des Yvelines

  64 kEuros

  The KISS project builds upon the emergence of new portable and secure devices known as Secure Portable Tokens (e.g., mass storage SIM cards, secure USB sticks, smart sensors) combining the security of smart cards and the storage capacity of NAND Flash chips. The idea promoted in KISS is to embed, in such devices, software components capable of acquiring, storing and managing securely personal data.

• ANR CLE ($10/13\to 12/15$)

  Cryptography from learning with errors

  ANR program: Jeunes Chercheurs, SIMI2

  Coordinator: Vadim Lyubashevsky (Inria, project-team Cascade)

  The aim of this project is to combine algorithmic and algebraic techniques coming from asymmetric and symmetric cryptology in order to improve some attacks and to design some symmetric primitives which have a good resistance to side-channel attacks.

• ANR BRUTUS ($10/14\to 09/18$)

  Authenticated Ciphers and Resistance against Side-Channel Attacks

  ANR program: Défi Société de l'information et de la communication

  Partners: ANSSI, Inria (project-team SECRET and project-team MARELLE), Orange, University of Lille, University of Rennes, University Versailles-Saint Quentin

  160 kEuros

  The Brutus project aims at investigating the security of authenticated encryption systems. We plan to evaluate carefully the security of the most promising candidates to the Caesar competition, by trying to attack the underlying primitives or to build security proofs of modes of operation. We target the traditional black-box setting, but also more "hostile" environments, including the hardware platforms where some side-channel information is available.

Others

• French Ministry of Defense ($10/12\to 09/15$)

  Funding for the supervision of Audrey Tixier's PhD.

  30 kEuros.

• DGA-MI ($09/15\to 09/16$)

  Analysis of binary streams: reconstructing LDPC codes.

  28.6 kEuros.

  The objective of this contract was to examine the code reconstruction problem (from noisy observation) for LDPC codes.