Projects

Awards

• Marie Curie Grant (E. Tsigaridas)
• Nomination at Institut Universitaire de France (M. Safey El Din)
• STOC 2011: best poster award Polynomials with Errors (PWE) M. R. Albrecht, J.-C. Faugère, D. Lin, and L. Perret.
• ISSAC 2010: best student paper award Computing Loci of Rank Defects of Linear Matrices using Grobner Bases and Applications to Cryptology J.-C. Faugère, M. Safey El Din, and P.-J. Spaenlehauer.
• ISSAC 2016: Distinguished Student Author Awards - Matias Bender (with Jean-Charles Faugere, Ludovic Perret and Elias Tsigaridas) A Superfast Randomized Algorithm to Decompose Binary Forms

National Grants

PIA RISQ (2017-2020): Regroupement de l’Industrie française pour la Sécurité Post – Quantique. The goal of this project is turning France into a significant international player in the post-quantum transition.

ANR JCJC GALOP (2018-2021) Games through the lens of ALgebra and OPptimization.

Industrial Contracts

• Postquantum Cryptography - HFEBOOST The team has developped, together with a french startup WASSA, an Android application which allows to encrypt and decrypt documents. The project was funded by SATT-LUTECH; an accelerating technology transfer unit from UPMC.
  

Standardization

• PolSys is involved in the quantum-safe security working group of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and in the quantum-safe cryptography specification group of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). In particular, PolSys participated to:
• [QRAvsQKD] B. Huttner, J. Melia, G. Carter, L. Perret and L. Wilson. “Applied Quantum-Safe Security”, Feb. 2017.
• [Glossary17] B. Huttner, J. Melia, G. Carter, L. Perret and L. Wilson. “Quantum Safe Security Glossary”, January 2017.
• [ETSI16] ETSI, Industry Specification Group on Quantum-Safe Cryptography. “Quantum-Safe Cryptography (QSC); Quantum-Safe Algorithmic Framework”, July 2016.
We also reference below others interesting documents on quantum-safe cryptography produced by standardisation bodies:
• [ETSIQu17] ETSI, GR on Quantum-Safe Cryptography. “Quantum-Safe Cryptography (QSC); Limits to Quantum Comptine applied to symmetric key sizes”, Feb. 2017.
• [ETSICase17] ETSI, GR on Quantum-Safe Cryptography. “Quantum-Safe Cryptography (QSC); Case Studies and Deployment Scenarios”, Feb. 2017.

PolSys in Press

• “Enfin! La révolution quantique”, L'Usine Nouvelle, November 2017.
• “QUANTIQUE : THE NEXT BIG THING(K)”, L'Informaticien, November 2017.
• “L'ORDINATEUR QUANTIQUE VA-T-IL METTRE À MAL LA CYBERSÉCURITÉ MONDIALE?”, Bouygues Blog, October 2017.
• “L'ordinateur quantique, un défi pour la cryptographie”, Les Echos, December 2016.
• J.-C. Faugère, L. Perret. “Le grand défi du post-quantique”, MISC HS 013, April 2016.
• “HFEBOOST CONTRE LA CYBERATTAQUE”, 2016.
• “ Sus aux cyberattaques !”, 2016.
• “The Man Who Wants To Encrypt Everything”, Forbes, September 2015.