[ISS] Seminari sicurezza prof. Naccache - 14-16 aprile

[Giuseppe Bianchi < >]

Cari colleghi e studenti

Abbiamo il piacere di annunciare un ciclo di seminari (dal 14 al 16
aprile) su argomenti di 
sicurezza e crittografia, tenuti dal Prof. David Naccache, tra i più
rinomati esperti mondiali 
nel campo della crittografia e degli attacchi a sistemi
crittografici.
 
I seminari sono divisi in due gruppi: "open lectures" (piu'
generali ed interdisciplinari, pensati per 
un'audience generale composta da studenti degli anni finali di ingegneria
dell'informazione) e 
"PhD lectures" (leggermente più tecnici e pensati per studenti
di dottorato, ma sempre mantenendo 
un livello della presentazione comprensibile anche a non esperti). La
partecipazione e' aperta e 
gratuita ad entrambi i seminari. 

I seminari si terranno nell'Aula R3 del dipartimento di ingegneria
elettronica, Università
di Roma Tor Vergata, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Roma. Seguono i)
agenda, ii) biografia 
dello speaker e iii) abstract dei seminari.

Per informazioni supplementari non esitate a contattare:

  

  

--------------- AGENDA ---------------

Tuesday April 14
14.30-15.30  Open Lecture: History and recent advances in
physical attacks to electronic devices (side channel attacks)

Wednesday April 15
09.30-11.30  Open lecture: Can we secure open platforms?
12.00-14.00  PhD lecture: Links between cryptography
and information theory

Thursday April 16
09.30-11.30  PhD lecture: Tools and techniques for public-key
cryptoanalysis
12.00-14.00  PhD lecture: Tools and techniques for
implementing public-key cryptosystems

--------------- BIOGRAFIA ---------------

David Naccache is currently professor at the University of
Paris 2 and a member of the 
Ecole normale supérieure's computer science research group. He was
previously with 
Philips where he designed, broke, and coded various smart card security
solutions and 
Thomson Consumer Electronics where he worked on Videocrypt’s Pay-TV
Module. 
He also led Gemplus' research group (100 researchers) during several
years. 
He has published more than 70 papers in cryptography and security and
holds 60 
patents in the field. His primary areas of interest are whatever can be
attacked or 
protected and, in particular, public-key cryptography, side-channel
attacks and mobile 
code security. He has served on more than 60 program committees of
specialized 
conferences such as ACM CSS, Eurocrypt, or Crypto and cosupervised a
dozen of 
Ph.D.s in the area in France and abroad. A few years ago he cosigned an
attack that 
caused the withdrawal of the ISO 9796-1 standard and the modification of
ISO 9796-2 
as well as an attack against PKCS#1 v1.5 encryption which was upgraded to
2.0. 
Under his management, Gemplus' security group won the RSA Security
Industry 
Award.

--------------- ABSTRACT ---------------

Open lecture: History and recent advances in physical
attacks: In this talk we will explain the principles 
of side channel attacks and present a number of new results. We will most
notably talk about 
power and electromagnetic leakage, fault attacks, temperature attacks and
timing attacks. 
We will present a taxonomy of countermeasures against these attacks and
discuss several 
models for reasoning about information leakage.
 
Open Lecture: Can we secure open platforms?  We will
study the possibility to inspect open 
platform using ad-hoc scanning agents with provable properties. The
agent's role is to inspect the 
platform and (under proper assumption) build a proof of conformity
allowing the verifier to ascertain 
the platform's state. We will discuss proposed solutions, new ideas and
present new research directions.

PhD lecture: Links between cryptography and information
theory. In this talk we will address ties and links 
between cryptography and information theory. We will particularly insist
on links between error correcting 
codes, theoretical computer science and complexity theory on one hand and
cryptography on the other 
hand. The talk will not assume that the audience is very expert in the
concerned fields.
 
PhD lecture: Tools and techniques for public-key
cryptanalysis. In this talk we will overview a number of 
public-key techniques allowing to defeat badly designed encryption and
signature schemes. The presentation 
is not meant to be an exhaustive presentation of cryptanalysis techniques
but rather a sampler of original ideas 
and computational trade-offs as well as their applications.

PhD lecture: Tools and techniques for implementing public-key
cryptosystems. Modular reduction and 
modular exponentiation play a very important role in public-key
cryptography. In this talk we will present 
and prove a number of techniques for fast multiplication, reduction and
exponentiation. The talk will consist 
in a presentation and proof of the reduction algorithms of Montogmery,
Barrett, Tomlinson, as well as other 
techniques.