Pierre-Alain Fouque

Pierre-Alain Fouque is Professor of Computer Science at University of Rennes 1 and Institut Universitaire de France, specializing in cryptographic security and cryptanalysis. His research spans post-quantum algorithms, symmetric cryptosystem vulnerabilities, and practical side-channel attacks.

Key research areas:

• Lattice reduction algorithms
• Blockchain-based supply chain security
• White-box cryptography implementations
• Automated cryptanalysis tools

Current projects include ANR SafeTLS improving TLS protocol security and Brutus project analyzing authenticated ciphers. Supervises doctoral candidates working on lattice-based signature schemes, side-channel resistant implementations, and cryptographic reverse-engineering.

Extensive program committee service includes CRYPTO, Eurocrypt, CCS, and CHES conferences. Research contributions include Falcon lattice-based signatures and key recovery attacks on multivariate schemes.