Section: Application Domains

Application Domains

Here are a few examples of applications of research done in SECSI:

• Security of electronic voting schemes: the case of the Helios protocol, used in particular at University of Louvain-la-Neuve (2010) and at the International Association for Cryptographic Research (IACR).

• Security of the protocols involved in the TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chip, a chip present in most PC laptops today, and which is meant to act as a trusted base.

• Security of the European electronic passport—and the discovery of an attack on the French implementation of it.

• The Tookan tool allows one to assess the security of security tokens. These tokens are meant as safes holding secret keys, which should never be permitted to get out unencrypted. Several vulnerabilities discovered. Several interesting customers in banking (Barclays), in aeronautics (Boeing), notably.

• Intrusion detection with the Orchids tool: several interested partners, among which EADS Cassidian, Thales, Galois Inc. (USA), the French Direction Générale de l'Armement (DGA).