Pascal Junod		DBLP entry Email: pascal@junod.info

In a Nutshell
I am a professor at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO/HEIG-VD). I provide high-quality consulting services and lead R&D projects in the area of industrial cryptography and information security; furthermore, I teach several topics of computer security to engineering students. Before that, I was working as a cryptographer for the Kudelski Group, world leader in the Pay-TV industry. Until March 2005, I have been a full-time teaching and research assistant (where I defended my PhD thesis under the supervision of Prof. Serge Vaudenay) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Switzerland), in the Security and Cryptography Laboratory. My main scientific interests are related to cryptography and cryptanalysis, especially to the design and cryptanalysis of block ciphers; for instance, I am the co-designer of the award-winning IDEA NXT block cipher (also known as FOX). Finally, I like to install and to secure servers running free UNIX-like operating systems and to discover how to hack them. On this site, most of my publications are available, as well as more information about my professional and teaching activities.
News
Anne Canteaut and myself will be editing an IOS Press Cryptology and Information Security Series volume on Advanced Linear Cryptanalysis of Block and Stream Ciphers (see the complete Call for Paper). Please feel free to send us contribution proposals before April 15th, 2010 ! I gave a talk entitled "IDEA - Past, Present and Future" at the Early Symmetric Crypto (ESC'10) Seminar in Remich (Luxembourg) on January 14th, 2010. [slides] An article (written in French) entitled "Cryptographie et Standardisation" appeared in the 12/2009 - 01/2010 edition of the Market.ch journal. [PDF] The Swiss Quantum project, at which I took part with two colleagues of HEIG-VD (Raphaël Voirol and Patrick Monbaron), successfully terminated ! [URL]
Last updated March 5, 2010