The UCL Crypto Group gathers some twenty researchers with backgrounds from microelectronics, telecommunications, computer science and mathematics.
This wide diversity of knowledge allowed the group to develop a strong expertise in cryptography but also in its applications to various security related issues, including physical attacks and countermeasures on hardware devices (smart-cards, FPGAs, ASICs), efficient implementation of cryptosystems, design and analysis of cryptosystems and protocols, elliptic curve and identity based cryptography, formal foundations of cryptography, zero-knowledge identification, privacy enhancing technologies, voting systems, spam analysis, etc.
Through strong commitment to academic research (more than 150 international publications since 2004) and its numerous collaborations with industrial partners, the UCL Crypto Group is intensively involved in the evolution of security technology, including the design of the next generation of smart-cards, sensor networks, privacy preserving systems, etc.
Latest news
- November 28-29, 2011: ECRYPT Workshop on Lightweight Cryptography
- Cryptographic Key Length Recommendation: http://www.keylength.com/
Latest publications
Jean-Charles Faugère, Christophe Petit, Ludovic Perret, and Guénaël Renault. Improving the Complexity of Index Calculus Algorithms in Elliptic Curves over Binary Fields, Eurocrypt 2012, April 2012 BibTeX
Benoit Libert, Thomas Peters, and Moti Yung. Scalable Group Signatures with Revocation, In D. Pointcheval, editor(s), Eurocrypt 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Spinger, April 2012, To appear BibTeX
Benoit Libert, and Moti Yung. Non-Interactive CCA-Secure Threshold Cryptosystems with Adaptive Security: New Framework and Constructions, In R. Cramer, editor(s), 9th Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC 2012), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Spinger, March 2012, To appear BibTeX
Javier Herranz, Fabien Laguillaumie, Benoit Libert, and Carla Ràfols. Short Attribute-Based Signatures for Threshold Predicates, In O. Dunkelman, editor(s), RSA Conference -- Cryptographers' Track 2012 (CT-RSA 2012), Volume 7178 of Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences, pages 51-67, Springer, February 2012 BibTeX
Malika Izabachène, Benoit Libert, and Damien Vergnaud. Block-wise P-signatures and Non-Interactive Anonymous Credentials with Efficient Attributes, In L. Chen, editor(s), 13th IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding (IMACC 2011), Volume 7089 of Lecture Notes on Computer Science, pages 431-450, Springer, December 2011, BibTeX