Anne Canteaut Explained

Anne Canteaut is a French researcher in cryptography, working at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) in Paris. She studies the design and cryptanalysis of symmetric-key algorithms and S-boxes.

Education and career

Canteaut earned a diploma in engineering from ENSTA Paris in 1993.^[1] She completed her doctorate at Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1996, with the dissertation Attaques de cryptosystèmes à mots de poids faible et construction de fonctions t-résilientes supervised by .

She is currently the chair of the INRIA Evaluation Committee,^[2] and of the FSE steering committee.^[3] She was the scientific leader of the INRIA team SECRET between 2007 and 2019.

Cryptographic primitives

Canteaut has contributed to the design of several new cryptographic primitives:

• DECIM, a stream cipher submitted to the eSTREAM project^[4]
• SOSEMANUK, a stream cipher selected in the eSTREAM portfolio^[5]
• Shabal, a hash function submitted to the SHA-3 competition^[6]
• Prince, a lightweight block cipher^[7]

Recognition

Canteaut was awarded the Legion of Honour in 2019.^[8] She became a fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research in 2024.^[9]

External links

• Home page

Notes and References

1. Web site: Anne Canteaut. ENSTA Paris. 2020-10-14.
2. Web site: October 18, 2022 . Inria Evaluation Committee . December 26, 2022 . Inria.
3. Web site: Knudsen . Lars R. . Lars Ramkilde Knudsen . December 21, 2020 . Fast Software Encryption (FSE) . December 26, 2022 . Inria.
4. Wu. Hongjun. Preneel. Bart. Robshaw. Matthew J. B.. Cryptanalysis of the Stream Cipher DECIM. 10.1007/11799313_3. 30–40. Springer. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Fast Software Encryption, 13th International Workshop, FSE 2006, Graz, Austria, March 15-17, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. 4047. 2006. free. 10.1.1.59.9346.
5. Salehani. Yaser Esmaeili. Kircanski. Aleksandar. Youssef. Amr M.. Nitaj. Abderrahmane. Pointcheval. David. Differential Fault Analysis of Sosemanuk. 10.1007/978-3-642-21969-6_20. 316–331. Springer. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Progress in Cryptology - AFRICACRYPT 2011 - 4th International Conference on Cryptology in Africa, Dakar, Senegal, July 5-7, 2011. Proceedings. 6737. 2011.
6. Detrey. Jérémie. Gaudry. Pierrick. Khalfallah. Karim. Biryukov. Alex. Gong. Guang. Guang Gong. Stinson. Douglas R.. A Low-Area Yet Performant FPGA Implementation of Shabal. 10.1007/978-3-642-19574-7_7. 99–113. Springer. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Selected Areas in Cryptography - 17th International Workshop, SAC 2010, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, August 12-13, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. 6544. 2010. free.
7. Soleimany. Hadi. Blondeau. Céline. Yu. Xiaoli. Wu. Wenling. Nyberg. Kaisa. Zhang. Huiling. Zhang. Lei. Wang. Yanfeng. 10.1007/s00145-013-9175-4. 3. J. Cryptol.. 718–744. Reflection Cryptanalysis of PRINCE-Like Ciphers. 28. 2015. 253639057 . free.
8. Web site: Décret du 13 juillet 2019 portant promotion et nomination. Government of France. 13 July 2019.
9. Web site: Anne CANTEAUT 2024 IACR Fellow. IACR.