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Practical infos

  • Date

    The cryptography seminar of Rennes takes place every Friday at 1:45 p.m. Any participant can suggest a guest or a talk subject by sending an email to one of the scientific committee members.
  • Location

    IRMAR - Université de Rennes - Campus Beaulieu Bat. 22, RDC, Rennes Amphi Lebesgue
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Next sessions

  • Dual attacks in code-based (and lattice-based) cryptography

    • September 19, 2025 (13:45 - 14:45)

    • IRMAR - Université de Rennes - Campus Beaulieu Bat. 22, RDC, Rennes - Amphi Lebesgue

    Speaker : Charles Meyer-Hilfiger - Inria Rennes

    The hardness of the decoding problem and its generalization, the learning with errors problem, are respectively at the heart of the security of the Post-Quantum code-based scheme HQC and the lattice-based scheme Kyber. Both schemes are to be/now NIST standards. These problems have been actively studied for decades, and the complexity of the state-of-the-art algorithms to solve them is crucially[…]
    • Cryptography

  • Présentations des nouveaux doctorants Capsule

    • October 03, 2025 (13:45 - 14:45)

    • IRMAR - Université de Rennes - Campus Beaulieu Bat. 22, RDC, Rennes - Amphi Lebesgue

    Speaker : Alisée Lafontaine et Mathias Boucher - INRIA Rennes

    2 nouveaux doctorants arrivent dans l'équipe Capsule et présenteront leurs thématiques de recherche. Alisée Lafontaine, encadrée par André Schrottenloher, présentera son stage de M2: "Quantum rebound attacks on double-block length hash functions"  Mathias Boucher, encadré par Yixin Shen, parlera des algorithmes quantiques et des réseaux euclidiens.  
  • Design of fast AES-based Universal Hash Functions and MACs

    • October 10, 2025 (13:45 - 14:45)

    • IRMAR - Université de Rennes - Campus Beaulieu Bat. 22, RDC, Rennes - Amphi Lebesgue

    Speaker : Augustin Bariant - ANSSI

    Ultra-fast AES round-based software cryptographic authentication/encryption primitives have recently seen important developments, fuelled by the authenticated encryption competition CAESAR and the prospect of future high-profile applications such as post-5G telecommunication technology security standards. In particular, Universal Hash Functions (UHF) are crucial primitives used as core components[…]
    • Cryptography

  • Lie algebras and the security of cryptosystems based on classical varieties in disguise

    • November 07, 2025 (13:45 - 14:45)

    • IRMAR - Université de Rennes - Campus Beaulieu Bat. 22, RDC, Rennes - Amphi Lebesgue

    Speaker : Mingjie Chen - KU Leuven

    In 2006, de Graaf et al. proposed a strategy based on Lie algebras for finding a linear transformation in the projective linear group that connects two linearly equivalent projective varieties defined over the rational numbers. Their method succeeds for several families of “classical” varieties, such as Veronese varieties, which are known to have large automorphism groups.   In this talk, we[…]
    • Cryptography

  • Some applications of linear programming to Dilithium

    • November 14, 2025 (13:45 - 14:45)

    • IRMAR - Université de Rennes - Campus Beaulieu Bat. 22, RDC, Rennes - Amphi Lebesgue

    Speaker : Paco AZEVEDO OLIVEIRA - Thales & UVSQ

    Dilithium is a signature algorithm, considered post-quantum, and recently standardized under the name ML-DSA by NIST. Due to its security and performance, it is recommended in most use cases.   During this presentation, I will outline the main ideas behind two studies, conducted in collaboration with Andersson Calle-Vierra, Benoît Cogliati, and Louis Goubin, which provide a better understanding of[…]
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Presentation of the seminar

  • Scientists welcome the renewed interest and original insight that cryptography brings to their disciplines, as well as the intellectual challenges posed to them.

    Multidisciplinary par excellence, cryptography constitutes a point of contact between number theory, algebraic geometry, algorithms and computer science. It brings whole sections of the most fundamental mathematics into contact with applications of great practical importance. 

  • Leader :

    Board :

    • The General Directorate of Armament (DGA) : state body responsible for the development of cryptographic algorithms, which depends on the the Ministry of the Armed Forces.
    • Rennes Mathematical Research Institute (IRMAR) : mathematics research laboratory associating the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the University of Rennes, the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (ENS Cachan), the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Rennes (INSA Rennes) and the University of Rennes 2.
    • Institute for Research in Computer Science and Random Systems (IRISA): computer science research laboratory in Rennes.

    DGA, IRISA and IRMAR wish, by organizing this cooperative seminar, to crystallize the interest of different actors in the Rennes region around cryptography and, beyond current fashion, to encourage fruitful and scientific collaboration. quality.