In a Nutshell

The Information Security Group (In French: Groupe Sécurité de l'Information - GSI) was launched by Prof. Gildas Avoine in 2008. It belongs to the ICTEAM research institute of the UCL, located in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. It offers an active research environment to improve the current state of information security, through research and teaching activities.

With background from computer science, electronics, and mathematics, members of the GSI address many aspects of information security especially applied cryptography. Their ongoing research concerns cryptographic protocols, theoretical and practical attacks, time-memory trade-offs, security analysis of RFID solutions including (but not limited to) authentication, privacy, relay attacks, and pseudo-random generators.

Beyond its academic activities, the research group is concerned by industrial needs and provides training, consulting, and auditing. It is also involved in industrial partnerships through research projects.

The group is proud to maintain the RFID Security and Privacy Lounge, a scientific website created in 2004 that references more than 600 research papers, and 800 members are registred to its mailing list.

News

  • New Publications

    Posted on: Feb 19th, 2012

    Two papers from the GSI were recently accepted:
    - Gildas Avoine and Chong Hee Kim: Mutual Distance Bounding Protocols in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
    - Gildas Avoine, Iwen Coisel, and Tania Martin: A Privacy-Restoring Mechanism for Offline RFID Systems at the Conference ACM WISEC 2012 in Tucson, USA.

  • Chairing

    Posted on: Feb 19th, 2012

    Gildas Avoine is the Program co-chair of Lightsec 2013.

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