PhD Students (2014—today)
- Annelie Heuser
(co-advisor Sylvain
Guilley, 2012-2015). Distinguishing
Distinguishers: A Theoretical Approach to Side-Channel
Analysis. European Google Fellowship Award
(2013). 1st PhD Prize of Telecom Fundation (2016).
1st PhD Prize of Telecom ParisTech (2016). CNRS researcher at IRISA
Rennes.
- Julien Gori
(co-advisor Yves
Guiard and Michel
Beaudouin-Lafon, 2015-2018). Modeling the Speed/Accuracy
Trade-Off using the Tools of Information Theory.
Post-doc at
LRI Paris-Sud/Paris Saclay, at Aalto University
(Finland). Researcher at INRIA.
- Éloi
de Chérisey (co-advisor, with Sylvain
Guilley, 2015-2018). Towards a Better Formalization of Side-Channels
Threats. French Ministry of Defense, Paris.
- Wanyu (Abby) Liu
(co-advisor Michel
Beaudouin-Lafon and Yves
Guiard, 2015-2018). Information Theory as a Unified Tool for
Understanding and
Designing Human-Computer
Interaction. STIC Doctoral School Award
(2017). 1st PhD Prize of Telecom ParisTech (2019).
CNRS researcher at
IRCAM Paris.
- Alexander
Schaub (co-advisor Sylvain
Guilley, 2017-2020). Side Channels in Post-Quantum Cryptography: Attacks
and Countermeasures. DGA Engineer.
- Wei Cheng
(co-advisor Sylvain
Guilley and Jean-Luc
Danger, 2018-2021). What Can Information Guess?
- Yi Liu
(co-advisor Patrick
Solé and Sylvain
Guilley, 2020-2023). Finite Field Error
Correcting Codes for Cryptography.
- Sébastien Huot (co-advisor Joseph Boutros,
2021-2024). Information-Theoretic Analysis of Neural
Decoders.
- Julien
Béguinot (co-advisor Sylvain
Guilley, 2022-2025).
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Recent Publications:
O. Rioul, "Shannon et la
théorie de l'information", analyse de la publication de C.E.
Shannon, une théorie mathématique de la communication, www.bibnum.education.fr,
janv. 2018. [Lien
web] [Texte complet (PDF)]
E. de Chérisey, S.
Guilley, O. Rioul, and A.
Heuser, "On the
optimality and practicability of mutual information analysis in
some scenarios," Cryptography
and Communications — Discrete Structures, Boolean Functions and
Sequences, Special Issue on ArticCrypt 2016, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 102-121, Jan.
2018. [Full
text (PDF)] [On line]
O. Rioul, "Shannon et la théorie de l'information", Premier Congrès Franco-Marocain de
Mathématiques Appliquées, Marrakech, Maroc, 16-20 avril
2018. [Résumé (PDF)]
J. Gori, O. Rioul, Y. Guiard, and M. Beaudouin-Lafon, "The perils of confounding factors:
How Fitts’ law experiments can lead to false conclusions," in Proc. 2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems (CHI 2018), Montréal, Canada, Apr. 21-26, 2018,
No. 196, pp. 1-10. [Full text
(PDF)]
W. Liu, O. Rioul, J. McGrenere, W. Mackay, and M. Beaudouin-Lafon, "BIGFile: Bayesian information gain
for fast file retrieval," in Proc. 2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems (CHI 2018), Montréal, Canada, Apr. 21-26, 2018,
No. 385, pp. 1-13. Honorable
mention award.
[Full
text
(PDF)]
C. Shannon, W. Weaver, La théorie mathématique de la
communication, Cassini, préface d'O. Rioul, avril 2018. [Préface
(PDF)]
O. Rioul, "On minimum entropy and Gaussian transport," Invited Communication, Entropy 2018: From Physics to
Information Sciences and Geometry, Barcelona, Spain, May
14-16, 2018. [Summary]
A. Schaub, J. L. Danger, S. Guilley, and O. Rioul, "Reliability
and entropy of delay PUFs: A theoretical analysis," 16th
International
Workshop on Cryptographic Architectures Embedded in Logic
Devices (CryptArchi 2018), Lorient, France, June 17-20,
2018. [Summary
(PDF)][Slides
(PDF)]
E. de Chérisey, S.
Guilley, and O. Rioul,
"Confusing information: How confusion improves side-channel
analysis for monobit leakages," 16th International
Workshop on Cryptographic Architectures Embedded in Logic
Devices (CryptArchi 2018), Lorient, France, June 17-20,
2018. [Summary][Slides (PDF)]
A. Schaub, O. Rioul, J. J. Boutros, J.-L. Danger, and S. Guilley,
"Challenge codes for physically unclonable functions with Gaussian
delays: A maximum entropy problem," in Proc. Latin American Workshop on Coding
and Information, Unicamp-Campinas, Brazil, July 22-27,
2018. [Full
text (PDF)]
A. Schaub, J.-L. Danger,
S. Guilley, and O. Rioul, "An improved analysis of reliability and
entropy for delay PUFs," in Proc. Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD'18),
Prague, Czech Republic, Aug. 29-31, 2018. [Full text (PDF)]
O. Rioul, "Rényi entropy power inequalities via normal transport
and rotation," Entropy: From
Physics to Information Sciences and Geometry, Vol. 20,
No. 9, 641, Sept. 2018. http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/20/9/641.
[Full text (PDF)]. Selected as
the cover paper.
[Cover (JPG)]
O. Rioul, Teoria da informação
e da codificação, Editora da Unicamp / Editora da
Universidade de Brasilia, Tradutor: José Carlos Magossi, 288 pp.,
Sept. 2018. [Link]
J. Gori, O. Rioul, and Y.
Guiard, "Speed-accuracy tradeoff of aimed movement: A formal
information-theoretic transmission scheme (FITTS)," ACM Transactions on Computer-Human
Interaction (TOCHI), Vol. 25, No. 5, pp. 27:1-27:33, Oct.
2018. [Full text (PDF)]
J. Gori and O. Rioul, "Information-theoretic analysis of the
speed-accuracy tradeoff with feedback," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2018), Miyazaki,
Japan, Oct. 7-10, 2018. [Full
text (PDF)]
O. Rioul and J. C. Magossi, "A local-global principle for the real
continuum," Chapter 11
in Trends in Logic, Vol. 47:
Contradictions, from Consistency to Inconsistency, W.
Carnielli and J. Malinowski eds., Springer, pp. 213-240, Oct.
2018. [Full text (PDF)]
O. Rioul, "This is IT: A
primer on Shannon's entropy and information," Séminaire
Poincaré XXIII (Poincaré Seminar a.k.a. "Bourbaphy" Seminar
2018), Institut Henri Poincaré, 17 nov. 2018. Chap.
2 in Information Theory, Progress in Mathematical
Physics, Birkhäuser, Springer Nature, pp. 49-86, Aug. 2021.
[Full text (PDF)] [Lien vidéo]
[Vidéo (MP4)]
O. Rioul and R. Zamir, "Matrix entropy-power inequality via normal
transport", invited presentation at the IEEE International Conference on the Science of
Electrical Engineering (ICSEE 2018), Eilat, Israel, Dec.
12-14, 2018. [Slides (PDF)]
E. de Chérisey, S. Guilley, and O. Rioul, "Confused yet
successful: Theoretical computation of distinguishers for monobit
leakages in terms of confusion coefficient and SNR," in Proc. 14th International Conference on
Information Security and Cryptology (Inscrypt 2018),
Fuzhou, China, Dec. 14-17, 2018. [Full
Text (PDF)]
T. Arbi, B. Geller, J. Yang, C. Abdel Nour, and O. Rioul,
"Uniformly projected RCQD QAM: A low-complexity signal space
diversity solution over fading channels with or without erasures,"
IEEE Transactions on
Broadcasting, Vol. 64, No. 4, pp. 803-815, Dec. 2018. [Full text
(PDF)]
O. Rioul, "Transportation proofs of Rényi entropy power
inequalities," IEEE Information Theory and
Applications Workshop (ITA 2019), San Diego, USA, Feb.
10-15, 2019. [Summary (PDF)]
W. Cheng, O. Rioul, and S. Guilley, "Guessing a secret
cryptographic key from side-channel leakages," Poster at the 2019 IEEE European School of
Information Theory (ESIT'19), Sophia Antipolis,
France, Apr. 15-19, 2019. [Poster (PDF)]
W. Liu, A. Oulasvirta, O. Rioul, M. Beaudouin-Lafon, Y. Guiard,
"Information theory: An analysis and design tool for HCI," Position
paper,
ACM CHI 2019 Workshop on Computational Modeling in
Human-Computer Interaction, Glasgow, U.K., May 4-9, 2019.
[Links
page][Full
text
(PDF)]
J. Gori, O. Rioul, and Y.
Guiard, "Speed-accuracy tradeoff of aimed movement: A formal
information-theoretic transmission scheme (FITTS)," 2019
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019),
Glasgow, U.K., May
4-9, 2019 [Full text
(PDF)]
A. Schaub, S. Guilley, and O. Rioul, "STAnalyzer: A simple static
analysis tool for detecting cache-timing leakages," 17th
International
Workshop on Cryptographic Architectures Embedded in Logic
Devices (CryptArchi 2019), Prague, Czech Republic, June 23-26, 2019. [Summary (PDF)] [Slides (PDF)]
O. Rioul and R. Zamir, "Equality in the matrix entropy-power
inequality and blind separation of real and complex sources," in
Proc. 2019 IEEE International
Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2019), Paris,
France, July 7-12, 2019. [Full
text
(PDF)]
E. de Chérisey, S. Guilley, O. Rioul, and P. Piantanida, "An
information-theoretic model for side-channel attacks in embedded
hardware," in Proc. 2019 IEEE International Symposium on
Information Theory (ISIT 2019), Paris, France, July 7-12,
2019. [Full
text (PDF)]
E. de Chérisey, S. Guilley, P. Piantanida, and O. Rioul, "Best
information is most successful: Mutual information and success
rate in side-channel analysis," IACR
Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
(TCHES 2019), Vol. 2019, No. 2, pp. 49-79, Atlanta, USA,
Aug. 25-28, 2019. [Full text
(PDF)]
J. Gori and O. Rioul, "Regression to a linear lower bound with
outliers: An exponentially modified Gaussian noise model," in Proc. 27th European Signal
Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2019), A Coruña, Spain,
Sept. 2-6, 2019. [Full text
(PDF)]
A. Schaub, O. Rioul, and J. J. Boutros, "Entropy estimation of physically
unclonable functions via Chow parameters," in Proc. 57th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication,
Control, and Computing (Allerton'19), Sept. 24-27, 2019.
[Full text (PDF)]
K. Zayana et O. Rioul,
"Imagine ℝ", Bulletin de
l’Union des Professeurs de classes préparatoires Scientifiques,
92ième année, No. 267, pp. 30-45, Sept. 2019. [Texte complet (PDF)]
M. Shi, O. Rioul, and P. Solé, "Asymptotic normality of Q-ary linear codes," in IEEE Communication Letters,
Vol. 23, No. 11, pp. 1895-1898, Nov. 2019. [Full text (PDF)]
O. Rioul, "Alpha-leakage via Fano's inequality for
alpha-information," IEEE Information Theory and Applications
Workshop (ITA 2020), San Diego, USA, Feb. 2-7, 2020. [Summary (PDF)]
A. Schaub, O. Rioul, S. Guilley, J.-L. Danger, and J. J. Boutros,
"Rényi entropy estimation for secure silicon fingerprints," IEEE
Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA 2020), San
Diego, USA, Feb. 2-7, 2020. [Poster
(PDF)]
P. Solé, O. Rioul, and M. Shi, "Designs in finite metric spaces,"
International Conference on Algebraic Combinatorics and
Applications (ALCOMA'20), Kloster Banz, Lichtenfels,
Germany, Mar. 29 - Apr. 23, 2020. [Summary (PDF)]
W. Liu, J. Gori, O.
Rioul, M. Beaudouin-Lafon, and Y. Guiard, "How relevant is Hick’s
law for HCI?" in Proc. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems (CHI 2020), Honolulu, USA, Apr. 25-30th, 2020. [Full
text
(PDF)]
K. Zayana et O. Rioul, "Les probabilités ont la cote !",
CultureMath de l'ENS, en ligne le 16 juin 2020. [Lien Web] [Texte complet (PDF)]
A. Schaub,
O. Rioul, J.-L. Danger, S. Guilley, and J. Boutros,
"Challenge codes for physically unclonable functions
with Gaussian delays: A maximum entropy problem," in Advances in Mathematics of
Communication, Special Issue: Latin American
Week on Coding and Information, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp.
491-505, Aug. 2020. [Full
text (PDF)]
A. Schaub, J.-L. Danger, O. Rioul, and S.
Guilley, "The big picture of delay-PUF dependability,"
in Proc. 24th European Conference on Circuit
Theory and Design (ECCTD'20), Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 7-10, 2020. [Full
text (PDF)]
S. Carré, S. Guilley, and Olivier Rioul, "Persistent fault
analysis with few encryptions," in Proc. 11th
International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel
Analysis and Secure Design (COSADE 2020), Lugano,
Switzerland, Oct. 5-7, 2020. Lecture Notes in
Computer Science, Vol. 12244, pp. 3-24, Springer, 2021
[Full text
(PDF)]
O. Rioul, "Rényi Entropy Power and Normal Transport," in Proc. International
Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications
(ISITA2020), Kapolei, Hawai'i , Oct. 24-27, 2020, pp. 1-5.
[Full text (PDF)]
J. Gori and O. Rioul, "A feedback information-theoretic
transmission scheme (FITTS) for modeling trajectory variability
in aimed movements," Biological Cybernetics (Advances in
Computational Neuroscience and in Control and Information
Theory for Biological Systems), Vol. 114, pp. 621-641,
Dec. 2020. [Full text (PDF)]
E. de Chérisey, S. Guilley, O. Rioul, and D. Jayasinghe,
"Information theoretic distinguishers for timing attacks with
partial profiles: Solving the empty bin issue," Journal of
Information Security, special issue on Cryptography and
Encryption, Vol. 12, No. 1, Jan. 2021. [Full text
(PDF)]
O. Rioul, "A primer on Shannon's information theory,'' 1st
Meeting on Algebraic Structures and Their Applications
(MASA'21), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 14-16, 2021. [Abstract (JPG)]
O. Rioul, "La vie et l'œuvre de Kolmogorov",
CultureMath de l'ENS, en ligne le 3 mai 2021. [Lien
Web] [Texte complet
(PDF)]
O. Rioul, "Qu'est-ce que la théorie de l'information ?",
CultureMath de l'ENS, en ligne le 23 juin 2021. [Lien
Web] [Text complet
(PDF)]
M. Shi, O. Rioul, and P. Solé, "Designs in finite
metric spaces: A probabilistic approach," Graphs and
Combinatorics, Special Issue commemorating the 75th
anniversary of E. Bannai and H. Enomoto, Vol. 37, No. 4,
July 2021, to appear. [Full text (PDF)]
P. Solé, W. Cheng, S. Guilley, and O. Rioul,
"Bent sequences over Hadamard codes for physically unclonable
functions," in Proc. 2021 IEEE International Symposium on
Information Theory (ISIT'21), 12-20 July 2021, Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia. [Full text (PDF)]
O. Rioul, W. Cheng, and S. Guilley, "Cumulant expansion of
mutual information for quantifying leakage of a protected
secret," in Proc. 2021
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
(ISIT'21), 12-20 July 2021, Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia. [Full
text (PDF)]
O. Rioul, "A primer on alpha-information theory with
application to leakage in secrecy systems," in Proc. 5th
conference on Geometric Science of Information (GSI'21),
Paris, France, 21-23 July 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer
Science, Vol.
12829
, pp. 459-467, Springer, 2021. [Full text (PDF)]
W. Cheng, Y. Liu, S. Guilley and O. Rioul, "Towards finding
best linear codes for side-channel protections," in Proc.
10th International Workshop on Security Proofs for Embedded
Systems (PROOFS'2021),
Beijing, China, Sept. 17,
2021. [Full text
(PDF)]
Y. Liu, W. Cheng, S. Guilley, and O. Rioul, "On conditional
alpha-information and its application in side-channel analysis,"
in Proc. 2021 IEEE Information Theory Workshop
(ITW2021), Kanazawa, Japan, Oct. 17-21, 2021. [Full text (PDF)]
P. Solé, Y. Liu, W. Cheng, S. Guilley, and O. Rioul, "Linear
programming bounds on the kissing number of q-ary
codes," in Proc. 2021 IEEE Information Theory Workshop
(ITW2021), Kanazawa, Japan, Oct. 17-21, 2021. [Full text
(PDF)]
A. Tănăsescu, M. O. Choudary, O. Rioul, and P. G. Popescu,
"Tight and scalable side-channel attack evaluations through
asymptotically optimal Massey-like inequalities on guessing
entropy," Entropy, 2021, vol. 23, no. 11, 1538, pp.
1-10. https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/11/1538
[Full
text (PDF)]
W. Liu, O. Rioul, and M. Beaudouin-Lafon, "Bayesian
Information Gain to Design Interaction," Chapter, in Bayesian
Methods for Interaction and Design, Cambridge University
Press, 19 pp., to
appear, 2021. [Full text
(PDF)]
Y. Liu, W. Cheng, O. Rioul, S. Guilley, and P. Solé, "Kissing
Number of Codes: A Survey," Chapter, VIASM, Springer Lecture
Notes in Mathematics, to appear, 2022. [Full text (PDF)]
O. Rioul, "Variations on a theme by Massey," submitted, Feb. 2021.
[Full text (PDF)]
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