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).
- 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.
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Recent Publications:
W. Liu, R. Lucas d'Oliveira, M. Beaudouin-Lafon, and O.
Rioul, "A Bayesian experimental design approach maximizing
information gain for human-computer interaction," IEEE
Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA 2017),
San Diego, USA, Feb. 12-17, 2017. [Poster
(PDF)]
O. Rioul, "Optimal transportation to the entropy-power
inequality," IEEE Information Theory and
Applications Workshop (ITA 2017), San Diego, USA, Feb.
12-17, 2017. [Full text (PDF)]
S. Guilley, A. Heuser,
and O. Rioul, "Codes for side-channel attacks and protections," in
Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Codes,
Cryptology and Information Security, in honor of Claude Carlet,
Rabat, Marocco, April 10-12, 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
vol. 10194, Springer, 2017, pp.35-55. [Full text (PDF)]
W. Liu, R. Lucas d'Oliveira, M.
Beaudouin-Lafon, and O. Rioul, "BIGnav: Bayesian information gain
for guiding multiscale navigation," in Proc. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors
in Computing Systems (CHI 2017), Denver, USA, May 6-11th,
2017, pp. 5869-5880. Best paper
award. [Full
text (PDF)]
J. Gori, O. Rioul, and Y.
Guiard, "To miss is human: Information-theoretic rationale for
target misses in Fitts' law," in Proc. ACM CHI
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017),
Denver, USA, May 6-11th, 2017, pp. 260-264. [Full text (PDF)]
O. Rioul, "The local-global principle for real analysis," invited keynote presentation, XVIII
Brazilian Logic Conference (EBL 2017), Pirenópolis,
Brazil, May 8-12, 2017. [Summary (PDF)]
O. Rioul, "At every corner: Determining corner points of two-user
Gaussian interference channels," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on
Communications (ICC'17), Paris, France, May 21-25, 2017.
[Full text (PDF)]
O. Rioul, "Yet another proof of
the entropy power inequality," IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 63, No. 6, pp.
3595-3599, June 2017. [Full text (PDF)]
S. Guilley, A. Heuser, T. Ming, and O. Rioul, "Stochastic
side-channel leakage analysis via orthonormal decomposition," invited paper, Int. Conf. Information Technology
and Communications Security (SECITC 2017), Bucharest,
Romania, June 8-9, 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 10543, Springer,
2017. [Full text (PDF)]
J.-L. Danger, O. Rioul,
S. Guilley, and A. Schaub, "Formalism to assess the entropy and
reliability of the loop-PUF," 15th International
Workshop on Cryptographic Architectures Embedded in Logic
Devices (CryptArchi 2017), Smolenice, Slovakia, June
18-21, 2017. [Summary (PDF)] [Slides
(PDF)]
N. Bruneau, C. Carlet, S.
Guilley, A. Heuser, E. Prouff, and O. Rioul, "Stochastic collision
attack," IEEE Transactions on
Information Forensics & Security, Vol. 12, No. 9, pp.
2090-2104, Sept. 2017. [Full
text
(PDF)]
O. Rioul et P. Flandrin, "Le dessein de Laplume", in Proc. XXVIe colloque GRETSI 2017,
Juan-Les-Pins, France, 5-8 sept. 2017. [Texte complet (PDF)]
O. Rioul, "Sur l'extremum
d'entropie pour les transformations linéaires", in Proc. XXVIe colloque GRETSI 2017,
Juan-Les-Pins, France, 5-8 sept. 2017. [Texte
complet
(PDF)]
T. Arbi, J. Yang, C. Abdel Nour, O. Rioul et B. Geller,
"Performance et simplicité d'implémentation des constellations
tournées : une approche pragmatique", in Proc. XXVIe colloque GRETSI 2017, Juan-Les-Pins,
France, 5-8 sept. 2017. [Full
text (PDF)]
W. Liu, O. Rioul, M. Beaudouin-Lafon, and Y. Guiard,
"Information-theoretic analysis of human performance for command
selection," in Proc. 16th IFIP TC.13 International
Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2017),
Mumbai, India, Sept. 25-29, 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
vol. 10515, Part III, pp. 515–524, Springer, 2017. [Full
text (PDF)]
J. Gori, O. Rioul, Y.
Guiard, and M. Beaudouin-Lafon, "One Fitts' law, two metrics," in
Proc. 16th IFIP TC.13
International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT
2017), Mumbai, India, Sept. 25-29, 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
vol. 10515, Part III, pp. 525-533, Springer, 2017. [Full text
(PDF)]
O. Rioul, "Optimal transport to Rényi entropies," in Proc. 3rd Conference on Geometric Science
of Information (GSI 2017), Paris, France, 7-9 Nov. 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 10589, Springer,
2017. [Full text (PDF)]
N. Bruneau, S. Guilley, A. Heuser, D. Marion, and O. Rioul,
"Optimal side-channel attacks for multivariate leakages and
multiple models," Journal of
Cryptographic Engineering (JCEN), Vol. 7, No. 4, pp.
331-341, Nov. 2017. [Full
text (PDF)]
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'18), Montréal, Canada, Apr. 21-26, 2018, to
appear. [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'18), Montréal, Canada, Apr. 21-26, 2018, to
appear. 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," in 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, in Progress in Mathematical Physics,
Birkhäuser, Springer Nature, pp. 49-86, to appear, 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. [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), to appear, 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)]
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, to appear, 2021. [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)]
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, "Variations on a theme by Massey," Feb. 2021. [Full text (PDF)]
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