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Overview

Michel Abdalla is affiliated with the École Normale Supérieure in France and has produced significant work within the field of computer science, with a strong focus on cryptography and data security. Their research spans multiple interconnected subfields including artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, computational theory and mathematics, information systems, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

The main topics of their investigations center around cryptography and data security, privacy-preserving technologies in data, complexity and algorithms in graphs, advanced authentication protocol security, user authentication and security systems, cryptographic implementations and security, and security in wireless sensor networks.

Michel Abdalla's recent papers include:

  • Blockchain driven medical image encryption employing chaotic tent map in cloud computing, 2025, published in Scientific Reports
  • Practical dynamic group signatures without knowledge extractors, 2022, published in Designs Codes and Cryptography
  • Security Analysis of CPace, 2021, published in Lecture notes in computer science
  • Corrigendum: Public-key encryption indistinguishable under plaintext-checkable attacks, 2020, published in IET Information Security
  • Inner-Product Functional Encryption with Fine-Grained Access Control, 2020, published in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Their publications appear in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Scientific Reports, Designs Codes and Cryptography, Lecture notes in computer science, and IET Information Security.

Michel Abdalla has collaborated frequently with several researchers including Dario Catalano, Romain Gay, Bogdan Ursu, David Pointcheval, and Manuel Barbosa, reflecting a pattern of co-authorship across multiple projects.

Best Publications

  • Searchable encryption revisited: consistency properties, relation to anonymous IBE, and extensions

    Michel Abdalla;Mihir Bellare;Dario Catalano;Eike Kiltz

  • Searchable Encryption Revisited: Consistency Properties, Relation to Anonymous IBE, and Extensions

    Michel Abdalla;Mihir Bellare;Dario Catalano;Eike Kiltz

  • Password-Based authenticated key exchange in the three-party setting

    Michel Abdalla;Pierre-Alain Fouque;David Pointcheval

  • The Oracle Diffie-Hellman Assumptions and an Analysis of DHIES

    Michel Abdalla;Mihir Bellare;Phillip Rogaway

  • Simple password-based encrypted key exchange protocols

    Michel Abdalla;David Pointcheval

  • Simple Functional Encryption Schemes for Inner Products

    Michel Abdalla;Florian Bourse;Angelo De Caro;David Pointcheval

  • A New Forward-Secure Digital Signature Scheme

    Michel Abdalla;Leonid Reyzin

  • From Identification to Signatures via the Fiat-Shamir Transform: Minimizing Assumptions for Security and Forward-Security.

    Michel Abdalla;Jee Hea An;Mihir Bellare;Chanathip Namprempre

  • DHIES: An encryption scheme based on the Diffie-Hellman Problem

    Michel Abdalla;Mihir Bellare;Phillip Rogaway

  • Robust encryption

    Michel Abdalla;Mihir Bellare;Gregory Neven

  • Increasing the Lifetime of a Key: A Comparative Analysis of the Security of Re-keying Techniques

    Michel Abdalla;Mihir Bellare

  • Identity-Based Encryption Gone Wild

    Michel Abdalla;Dario Catalano;Alexander Dent;John Malone-Lee

  • Interactive diffie-hellman assumptions with applications to password-based authentication

    Michel Abdalla;David Pointcheval

  • Multi-input Inner-Product Functional Encryption from Pairings

    Michel Abdalla;Mariana Raykova;Hoeteck Wee

  • Password-Based group key exchange in a constant number of rounds

    Michel Abdalla;Emmanuel Bresson;Olivier Chevassut;David Pointcheval

  • Multi-Input Functional Encryption for Inner Products: Function-Hiding Realizations and Constructions Without Pairings

    Michel Abdalla;Dario Catalano;Dario Fiore

  • Forward-Secure Threshold Signature Schemes

    Michel Abdalla;Sara K. Miner;Chanathip Namprempre

  • Password-based authenticated key exchange in the three-party setting

    Michel Abdalla;Pierre-Alain Fouque;David Pointcheval

  • One-Time verifier-based encrypted key exchange

    Michel Abdalla;Olivier Chevassut;David Pointcheval

  • Generalized Key Delegation for Hierarchical Identity-Based Encryption.

    Michel Abdalla;Eike Kiltz;Gregory Neven

  • Searchable encryption revisited

    Michel Abdalla;Mihir Bellare;Dario Catalano;Eike Kiltz

Frequent Co-Authors

David Pointcheval
David Pointcheval École Normale Supérieure
Dario Catalano
Dario Catalano University of Catania
Mihir Bellare
Mihir Bellare University of California, San Diego
Pierre-Alain Fouque
Pierre-Alain Fouque University of Rennes
Eike Kiltz
Eike Kiltz Ruhr University Bochum
Tanja Lange
Tanja Lange Eindhoven University of Technology
Vadim Lyubashevsky
Vadim Lyubashevsky IBM (Switzerland)
Dario Fiore
Dario Fiore Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies

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