Former News
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New Member
Adrien Bourgeois will join our research group in September 2011.
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New Publication
Gildas Avoine wrote an article entitled "RFID for Newbies, Sauce Security", published by Hakin9 Vol.6 No.8 Issue 08/2011.
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Postdoc Position Available
GSI seeks postdoc applicants in the area of Information Security or Cryptography. Contact Gildas Avoine for more information.
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New Member
Xavier Carpent joined the GSI in September 2010 in order to achieve a PhD thesis on RFID Security.
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Publications
The GSI presented five articles during the international workshop RFIDsec 2010, held in Istanbul, Turkey. See the publications section.
The GSI also released the second edition of "Sécurité informatique, Cours et exercices corrigés" published by Vuibert. -
From our Labs...
The GSI released Version 1.0 of e-retriever, which is a Linux-friendly tool that helps to analyze dumps of RFID cards, especially their logical structure. The tool can be downloaded in the section ourlabs.
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Visiting Scientist
Muhammed Ali Bingol (TÜBİTAK, Turkey) will visit the GSI during Oct. 04-15, 2010, and Cédric Lauradoux (INRIA Rhone Alpes) will visit the GSI during Oct. 04-08, 2010.
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Publications
Chong Hee Kim got a paper accepted in the Information Processing Letters, entitled "New fault attacks using jacobi symbol and application to regular right-to-left algorithms". See the publications section.
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Visiting Scientist
Thomas Baignères from CryptoExperts (Paris, France) is visting the GSI until end of August 2010.
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Internship Student
Samuel Bizien from ENS Ulm (Paris, France) is currently hosted by the GSI in order to achieve an internship about "Decoding Information Obtained from a Chip".
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Publication
The paper "Differential Fault Analysis against AES-192 and AES-256 with Minimal Faults" by Chong Hee Kim has been accepted to FDTC 2010.
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Visiting Scientist
Rolando Trujillo, who is from Rovira i Virgili University (Spain), is visting the GSI until end of April. Rolando will work on RFID distance bounding protocols during his stay.
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New GSI Member
Dr. Chong Hee Kim joined the GSI on March 1st, 2010. Chong Hee obtained a PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering (Information Security) in 2004 at POSTECH in Korea. He is already familiar with the UCL, where he spent some time in the Crypto Group. He will work on the TRASILUX project funded by the Walloon Region.
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RFID Training Week
The GSI will organize in Louvain-la-Neuve from Monday 29 March 2010 to Friday 02 April 2010 the "RFID Security and Privacy Training Week". The objective of this course is to provide to engineers, managers, and researchers competences in RFID security and privacy, in order to allow them to better understand and analyze the security needs of their RFID solutions.
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Read your Passport in one Click
Jean-François Houzard and Olivier Roger, Master students in the GSI released the beta version of the tools pyPassport and ePassport Viewer, which allow to read and check your passport. More….
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Laureate of the ARTS Programme
Gildas Avoine who leads the GSI is the UCL's laureate winner of the Apple Research & Technology Support (ARTS). The programme offers to the laureate $30,000 of Apple solutions in the form of hardware, software and support.
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New Master Thesis Proposals
We updated the on-line list of Master Thesis Proposals available to UCL and external students.
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LibéLyon Speaks About Passports
LibéLyon publishes today an article in French about the biometric passports. People interviewed in the article are Stéphanie Lacour, Bernard Beauzamy, Gildas Avoine, and Jean-Claude Vitran. More….
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New publications
Cédric Lauradoux got two papers accepted at ISIT'09 and SAR-SSI'09 More….
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New Book Chapter
Gildas Avoine participated in the writing of the book "La sécurité de l'individu numérisé - Réflexions propectives et internationales" published by L'Harmattan and edited by Stéphanie Lacour. Référence provided in the section publications of this website.
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Invited talk: Cédric Lauradoux at INSA, France
Cédric Lauradoux gave a talk at INSA (Lyon, France) in January. The slides of the presentation will be available soon in the publications section.
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MOBIB Extractor: The Content of Your Pass Revealed!
Gildas Avoine, Tania Martin, and Jean-Pierre Szikora from the Information Security Group (GSI) of the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) published a software that allows customer to read their MOBIB card, that is their Brussels' public transportation card. The card stores some personal data that can be freely and remotely acceded by any person in the close proximity of the card. Beyond identity, birthdate, and zipcode, the card also contains in the clear the tracks of the last three travels of the customer. More….