Chairman : Xavier Leroy
" Despite all preconceived ideas, the property of absolute indecipherability is by no means a pure chimera ". These words by William F. Friedman, one of the founding fathers of cryptology, show that cryptologists and engineers were already aware, at the beginning of the 20th century, that thanks to the disposable mask, they had invented a technique for encrypting data century that they had invented a perfect encryption technique, thanks to the disposable mask. However, it was not until the work of Claude Shannon, published in 1949, that the notion of " perfect secret "was formally defined, the conditions under which it could be achieved understood, and why practical constraints had often considerably weakened the security of the systems used. This fundamental contradiction lies at the very heart of the work of cryptographers: trying to get as close as possible to this absolute security with an algorithm that can be implemented under realistic conditions.
Anne Canteaut is a research director at Inria, specializing in cryptography. She is interested both in the design of new cryptographic algorithms, notably to protect data confidentiality, and in analyzing the security of existing systems. Her work lies at the interface between cryptography, algorithms and discrete mathematics. She is also currently president of Inria's evaluation committee.
