2026 Pierre-Alain Fouque: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	48	6170	5991	129	126	209	9451

Overview

Pierre-Alain Fouque is affiliated with the University of Rennes in France and specializes in computer science, with a focus on cryptography and data security. Their research spans several subfields, including artificial intelligence, information systems, computer networks and communications, computational theory and mathematics, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

Their main topics of work include:

Cryptography and Data Security
Cryptographic Implementations and Security
Coding Theory and Cryptography
Cryptography and Residue Arithmetic
Advanced Authentication Protocols Security
Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Pierre-Alain Fouque are:

Paul Kirchner
Mohamed Sabt
Patrick Derbez
Thomas Espitau
Daniel De Almeida Braga

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent being:

IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
arXiv (Cornell University)
2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)

Examples of recent publications include:

"They're not that hard to mitigate": What Cryptographic Library Developers Think About Timing Attacks, 2022, 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
Increasing Precision of Division Property, 2020, IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
Linearly equivalent S-boxes and the division property, 2020, Designs Codes and Cryptography
BAT: Small and Fast KEM over NTRU Lattices, 2022, IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
Key Committing Attacks against AES-based AEAD Schemes, 2024, IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology

Pierre-Alain Fouque's research outputs demonstrate a focus on cryptographic methods, security issues in cryptographic implementations, and theoretical aspects of cryptography. The scientist maintains active collaboration with other experts in the field and contributes frequently to well-recognized cryptology and security journals and conferences.

Best Publications

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

Michel Abdalla;Pierre-Alain Fouque;David Pointcheval

991
Citations
Anomaly Detection in Streams with Extreme Value Theory

Alban Siffer;Pierre-Alain Fouque;Alexandre Termier;Christine Largouet

500
Citations
Sharing Decryption in the Context of Voting or Lotteries

Pierre-Alain Fouque;Guillaume Poupard;Jacques Stern

442
Citations
Practical multi-candidate election system

Olivier Baudron;Pierre-Alain Fouque;David Pointcheval;Jacques Stern

428
Citations
The Doubling Attack - Why Upwards Is Better than Downwards

Pierre-Alain Fouque;Frederic Valette

275
Citations
Strong Non-Interference and Type-Directed Higher-Order Masking

Gilles Barthe;Sonia Belaïd;François Dupressoir;Pierre-Alain Fouque

260
Citations
Improved Key Recovery Attacks on Reduced-Round AES in the Single-Key Setting

Patrick Derbez;Pierre-Alain Fouque;Pierre-Alain Fouque;Jérémy Jean

238
Citations
An improved LPN algorithm

Eric Levieil;Pierre-Alain Fouque

225
Citations
Practical cryptanalysis of SFLASH

Vivien Dubois;Pierre-Alain Fouque;Adi Shamir;Jacques Stern

204
Citations
Verified Proofs of Higher-Order Masking.

Gilles Barthe;Sonia Belaïd;François Dupressoir;Pierre-Alain Fouque

182
Citations
Threshold Cryptosystems Secure against Chosen-Ciphertext Attacks

Pierre-Alain Fouque;David Pointcheval

178
Citations
Side-Channel Attacks on BLISS Lattice-Based Signatures: Exploiting Branch Tracing against strongSwan and Electromagnetic Emanations in Microcontrollers

Thomas Espitau;Pierre-Alain Fouque;Benoît Gérard;Mehdi Tibouchi

158
Citations
Fault Attack on Elliptic Curve Montgomery Ladder Implementation

P.-A. Fouque;R. Lercier;D. Real;F. Valette

145
Citations
An Improved BKW Algorithm for LWE with Applications to Cryptography and Lattices.

Paul Kirchner;Pierre-Alain Fouque

141
Citations
Differential cryptanalysis for multivariate schemes

Pierre-Alain Fouque;Louis Granboulan;Jacques Stern

140
Citations
Password-based authenticated key exchange in the three-party setting

Michel Abdalla;Pierre-Alain Fouque;David Pointcheval

139
Citations
Revisiting Lattice Attacks on Overstretched NTRU Parameters

Paul Kirchner;Pierre-Alain Fouque

136
Citations
Improving Key Recovery to 784 and 799 rounds of Trivium using Optimized Cube Attacks.

Pierre-Alain Fouque;Thomas Vannet

119
Citations
Automatic Search of Attacks on round-reduced AES and Applications.

Charles Bouillaguet;Patrick Derbez;Pierre-Alain Fouque

116
Citations
Fully Distributed Threshold RSA under Standard Assumptions

Pierre-Alain Fouque;Jacques Stern

110
Citations
Cryptanalysis of the New CLT Multilinear Map over the Integers

Jung Hee Cheon;Pierre-Alain Fouque;Changmin Lee;Brice Minaud

84
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mehdi Tibouchi NTT (Japan)

David Pointcheval École Normale Supérieure

Jacques Stern École Normale Supérieure

Gilles Barthe Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy

Antoine Joux Université Paris Cité

Michel Abdalla École Normale Supérieure

Orr Dunkelman University of Haifa

Adi Shamir Weizmann Institute of Science

Vadim Lyubashevsky IBM (Switzerland)

David Naccache École Normale Supérieure

External Links

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