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
- February 27, 2013: RSA Conference Award for Excellence in Mathematics for Jean-Jacques Quisquater -- RSA Conference Awards
- September 4, 2012: Best Student Paper Award and Best Presentation Award Shariati granted at CMS 2012 to Saloomeh Shariati
- Cryptographic Key Length Recommendation: http://www.keylength.com/
Latest publications
Benoit Libert, Thomas Peters, Marc Joye, and Moti Yung. Linearly Homomorphic Structure-Preserving Signatures and Their Applications, In H. Handschuh & R. Canetti & J. Garay, editor(s), Crypto 2013, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Spinger, August 2013, To appear BibTeX
Christophe Petit, and Jean-Jacques Quisquater. Rubik's for cryptographers, In Notices of the American Mathematical Society, June 2013 BibTeX
Édouard Cuvelier, Sophie Mawet, Olivier Pereira, Abdelrahaman Aly, and Mathieu Vanvyve. Securly Solving Simple Combinatorial Graph Problems, Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2013, April 2013 BibTeX
Nuttapong Attrapadung, Benoit Libert, and Thomas Peters. Efficient Completely Context-Hiding Quotable and Linearly Homomorphic Signatures, In K. Kurosawa & G. Hanaoka, editor(s), Public-Key Cryptography – PKC 2013, Volume 7778 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Spinger, February 2013 BibTeX
Luca Calderoni, Dario Maio, and Paolo Palmieri. Location-aware Mobile Services for a Smart City: Design, Implementation and Deployment, In Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, Volume 7-3, pages 74-87, December 2012, Special Issue on Smart Applications for Smart Cities - New Approaches to Innovation PDF BibTeX