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Computer Science
Switzerland
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
56
Citations
11700
World Ranking
4104
National Ranking
93

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Serge Vaudenay is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, with a concentration across several subfields including artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, computer networks and communications, information systems, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The main topics addressed in their work cover various aspects of cryptography and data security, cryptographic implementations and security, coding theory and cryptography, chaos-based image and signal encryption, advanced authentication protocols security, user authentication and security systems, and graph theory and CDMA systems.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Serge Vaudenay include F. Betül Durak, Loïs Huguenin-Dumittan, Subhadeep Banik, Fatih Balli, and Khashayar Barooti.

Serge Vaudenay has published in several venues, most notably:

  • IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
  • IACR Communications in Cryptology
  • Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
  • The Computer Journal
  • Digital Threats Research and Practice

Their recent papers include the following:

  • "Cryptanalysis of LowMC instances using single plaintext/ciphertext pair," 2020, IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
  • "Swap and Rotate: Lightweight Linear Layers for SPN-based Blockciphers," 2020, published in both Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
  • "Optimal Symmetric Ratcheting for Secure Communication," 2022, The Computer Journal
  • "SwissCovid in the Perspective of Its Goals," 2021, Digital Threats Research and Practice

Best Publications

  • Advances in Cryptology - Eurocrypt 2006

    Serge Vaudenay

  • Links between differential and linear cryptanalysis

    Florent Chabaud;Serge Vaudenay

  • Security flaws induced by CBC padding -applications to SSL, IPSEC, WTLS …

    Serge Vaudenay

  • On privacy models for RFID

    Serge Vaudenay

  • Public Key Cryptography - PKC 2005

    Serge Vaudenay

  • Secure communications over insecure channels based on short authenticated strings

    Serge Vaudenay

  • Authenticated Multi-Party Key Agreement

    Mike Just;Serge Vaudenay

  • Password interception in a SSL/TLS channel

    Brice Canvel;Alain Hiltgen;Serge Vaudenay;Martin Vuagnoux

  • How far can we go beyond linear cryptanalysis

    Thomas Baigneres;Pascal Junod;Serge Vaudenay

  • A Classical Introduction to Cryptography: Applications for Communications Security

    Serge Vaudenay

  • Can D.S.A. be improved? — Complexity trade-offs with the digital signature standard —

    David Naccache;David M'RaÏhi;Serge Vaudenay;Dan Raphaeli

  • On the need for multipermutations: Cryptanalysis of MD4 and SAFER

    Serge Vaudenay

  • Decorrelation: A Theory for Block Cipher Security

    Serge Vaudenay

  • Mutual authentication in RFID: security and privacy

    Radu-Ioan Paise;Serge Vaudenay

  • FOX: a new family of block ciphers

    Pascal Junod;Serge Vaudenay

  • Provable Security for Block Ciphers by Decorrelation

    Serge Vaudenay

  • Minding your p's and q`s

    Ross J. Anderson;Serge Vaudenay

  • Progress in Cryptology – AFRICACRYPT 2008

    Serge Vaudenay

  • An experiment on DES statistical cryptanalysis

    Serge Vaudenay

  • On the Lai-Massey scheme

    S. Vaudenay

  • ECRYPT yearly report on algorithms and keysizes

    Steve Babbage;Dario Catalano;Carlos Cid;Benne de Weger

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacques Stern
Jacques Stern École Normale Supérieure
David Naccache
David Naccache École Normale Supérieure
Willi Meier
Willi Meier University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
David Pointcheval
David Pointcheval École Normale Supérieure
Ross Anderson
Ross Anderson University of Cambridge
Ed Dawson
Ed Dawson Queensland University of Technology
Kaisa Nyberg
Kaisa Nyberg Aalto University
Bart Preneel
Bart Preneel KU Leuven
Claus-Peter Schnorr
Claus-Peter Schnorr Goethe University Frankfurt

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