Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

• On December 2nd, 2019, the factorization of RSA-240 and the computation of a 240-digit discrete logarithm were announced.

• In August 2019, Pierrick Gaudry found a vulnerability in the encryption scheme of the Internet voting system of Moscow.

• Pierrick Gaudry and Cécile Pierrot were invited speakers at the ECC 2019 conference (Bochum, Germany).

Awards

• Simon Abelard received the PhD prize of Université de Lorraine from the doctoral school IAEM (computer science, automatic) [25].