Information Security
The Information Security Research Area covers research on cryptography and information security. The following topics are covered:
- Symmetric and public key cryptography
- Design and analysis of crypto schemes
- Authenticated encryption
- Provable security, fully homomorphic encryption
- Efficient software and hardware implementation of cryptograhy
- Side-channel analysis of smartcards and embedded devices
- Security protocols
- Network, mobile and embedded systems security
- Security and dependability of embedded components
- Sensors and RFID security
- Design and analysis of lightweight cryptography
- Internet and web-security, mobile code security
- Privacy and anonymity
- Privacy enhancing technologies
- Privacy on the Internet
- Private information retrieval and privacy preserving data mining
- Economics of privacy
- Information flow and access control policies
- Privacy of health and bio-bank data
- Verifiable voting systems, E-democracy
- Cloud computing, reputation based systems
- Cirtual and crypto currencies
- Anonymity of Bitcoin
- Design of proof of work functions
- Economics of mining
The research theme on information security is managed by Laboratory of Algorithmics, Cryptology and Security (LACS).
Professors
This area is researched by the following professors:- Alexei BIRYUKOV:
- Cryptanalysis
- Cryptography
- Hardware and Software Security
- Network, Mobile and Embedded Systems Security
- Privacy and Anonymity
- Virtual and Crypto Currencies
- Jean-Sébastien CORON:
- Computational Number-Theory
- Public-Key Cryptography
- Side-Channel Attacks
- Yves LE TRAON:
- Automated implementation of security mechanisms
- Malware detection and prevention
- Model-Driven Security
- Big Data at Runtime
- Modeling at Runtime
- Software Testing
- Sjouke MAUW:
- Attack Trees
- Formal Methods
- Location-based Services
- Network Security
- Privacy
- RFIDs
- Security Assessment
- Security Protocols
- Volker MÜLLER:
- Computational Number-Theory
- Security Primitives in Business Applications
- Peter Y A RYAN:
- Analysis of Information Flow
- Cryptographic Protocols
- Cryptographic Voting Schemes
- Cryptography
- Information Assurance
- Modelling and Analysis of Secure Systems and Security Policies
- Quantum Cryptography
- Socio-technical Aspects of Security
