Serge Vaudenay is a well-known French cryptographer. Serge Vaudenay entered the École Normale Supérieure in Paris as a "normalien" student in 1989. In 1992, he passed the "agrégation" in mathematics. He did his PhD at the computer science laboratory of École Normale Supérieure, and defended it in 1995 at University Paris 7; his advisor was Jacques Stern. From 1995 to 1999, he was researcher at CNRS. Wikipedia
...Serge Vaudenay I am professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technologies (EPFL) where I head the Security and Cryptography Laboratory (LASEC) within the School... lasecwww.epfl.ch/~vaudenay/
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