Serge Vaudenay, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Serge Vaudenay

French cryptographer

Date of Birth: 05-Apr-1968

Place of Birth: Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Île-de-France, France

Profession: engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Serge Vaudenay

  • Serge Vaudenay (born 5 April 1968) is a French cryptographer. Serge Vaudenay entered the École Normale Supérieure in Paris as a normalien student in 1989.
  • In 1992, he passed the agrégation in mathematics.
  • He completed his Ph.D.
  • studies at the computer science laboratory of École Normale Supérieure, and defended it in 1995 at the Paris Diderot University; his advisor was Jacques Stern.
  • From 1995 to 1999, he was a senior research fellow at French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
  • In 1999, he moved to a professorship at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne where he leads the Laboratory of Security and Cryptography (LASEC).
  • LASEC is host to two popular security programs developed by its members: iChair, developed by Thomas Baignères and Matthieu Finiasz, a popular on-line submission and review server used by many cryptography conferences; and, Ophcrack, a Microsoft Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables by Philippe Oechslin.Vaudenay has published several papers related to cryptanalysis and design of block ciphers and protocols.
  • He is one of the authors of the IDEA NXT (FOX) algorithm (together with Pascal Junod).
  • He was the inventor of the padding oracle attack on CBC mode of encryption.
  • Vaudenay also discovered a severe vulnerability in the SSL/TLS protocol; the attack he forged could lead to the interception of the password.
  • He also published a paper about biased statistical properties in the Blowfish cipher and is one of the authors of the best attack on the Bluetooth cipher E0.
  • In 1997 he introduced decorrelation theory, a system for designing block ciphers to be provably secure against many cryptanalytic attacks.Vaudenay was appointed program chair of Eurocrypt 2006, PKC 2005, FSE 1998; and in 2006 elected as board member of the International Association for Cryptologic Research.

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