Curriculum Vitae

My CV is also available as a PDF file. See also my publications.

Thomas PORNIN
2977 rue de Deschambault
Québec G1B 1B4
Québec - Canada
Tel: +1 (418) 977-7531
<pornin@bolet.org>

Born on June 6th, 1975 in Dreux (France).

Professional Experience

• since September 2001
  Co-founder of Cryptolog International
  • conducted high-level consulting in cryptography
  • lead PKI-related software development projects
  • developed new patented protocols
• August 1999 to November 2000
  Military service and internship at the French Ministry of Interior (confidential work)
• April to July 1996
  Internship at the cryptography team of Gemplus (now Gemalto)
  • worked on the optimization of RSA algorithm implementations
  • developed new signature and authentication algorithms
• June and July 1995
  Internship at the "Institut d'Électronique Fondamentale" (Paris XI University)
  • designed and implemented low-level image processing functions on a parallel SIMD computer

Education

• September 1996 to August 2001
  PhD in cryptography at "Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'ÉNS" (Paris)
  • designed automatic tools of optimization of symmetric cryptography algorithms on software architectures
  • implemented symmetric cryptography algorithms on FPGA chips
  • worked on the cryptanalysis of the A5/1 cipher (GSM security)
• July 1996
  DEA (3rd year of Master Degree) "Algorithmique" (generic algorithmic studies, specialization in cryptography) of Paris VI University
• September 1994 to September 1998
  Scholarship at the École Normale Supérieure, rue d'Ulm, Paris

Publications

• T. Pornin, Optimal Resistance Against the Davies and Murphy Attack, Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT'98, LNCS 1514, Springer-Verlag, 2000.
• H. Gilbert, M. Girault, P. Hoogvorst, F. Noilhan, T. Pornin, G. Poupard, J. Stern, S. Vaudenay, Decorrelated Fast Cipher: an AES Candidate, Proceedings of the First Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Candidate Conference, 1998.
• O. Baudron, H. Gilbert, L. Granboulan, H. Handschuh, R. Harley, A. Joux, P. Nguyen, F. Noilhan, D. Pointcheval, T. Pornin, G. Poupard, J. Stern, S. Vaudenay, DFC Update, Proceedings of the Second Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Candidate Conference, 1999.
• O. Baudron, H. Gilbert, L. Granboulan, H. Handschuh, A. Joux, P. Nguyen, F. Noilhan, D. Pointcheval, T. Pornin, G. Poupard, J. Stern, S. Vaudenay, Report on the AES Candidates, Proceedings of the Second Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Candidate Conference, 1999.
• T. Pornin, J. Stern, Software-Hardware Trade-offs, Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2000, LNCS 1965, Springer-Verlag, 2000.
• T. Pornin, Transparent Harddisk Encryption, Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2001, LNCS 2162, Springer-Verlag, 2000.
• T. Pornin, Implantation et optimisation des primitives cryptographiques, PhD thesis, defended on October 25th, 2001.
• D. Catalano, D. Pointcheval, T. Pornin, IPAKE: Isomorphisms for Password-based Authenticated Key Exchange, Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2004, LNCS 3152, Springer-Verlag, 2004.
• C. Berbain, O. Billet, A. Canteaut, N. Courtois, H. Gilbert, L. Goubin, A. Gouget, L. Granboulan, C. Lauradoux, M. Minier, T. Pornin, H. Sibert, SOSEMANUK, a fast software-oriented stream cipher, Proceedings of SKEW - Symmetric Key Encryption Workshop, Network of Excellence in Cryptology ECRYPT, Aarhus, Danemark, May 26th and 27th, 2005.
• C. Berbain, O. Billet, A. Canteaut, N. Courtois, B. Debraize, H. Gilbert, L. Goubin, A. Gouget, L. Granboulan, C. Lauradoux, M. Minier, T. Pornin, H. Sibert, DECIM, a new stream cipher for hardware applications, Proceedings of SKEW - Symmetric Key Encryption Workshop, Network of Excellence in Cryptology ECRYPT, Aarhus, Danemark, May 26th and 27th, 2005.
• T. Pornin, J. P. Stern, Digital Signatures Do Not Guarantee Exclusive Ownership, Applied Cryptography and Network Security - ACNS 2005, LNCS 3531, Springer-Verlag, 2005.
• C. Berbain, O. Billet, A. Canteaut, N. Courtois, B. Debraize, H. Gilbert, L. Goubin, A. Gouget, L. Granboulan, C. Lauradoux, M. Minier, T. Pornin, H. Sibert, DECIM v2, Proceedings of SASC 2006 - ECRYPT Workshop on stream ciphers, Leuven, Belgique, February 2006.
• D. Catalano, D. Pointcheval, T. Pornin, Trapdoor Hard-to-Invert Group Isomorphisms and Their Application to Password-Based Authentication, Journal of Cryptology, volume 20, number 1, Springer-Verlag, 2007.
• L. Granboulan, T. Pornin, Perfect Block Ciphers with Small Blocks, Fast Software Encryption - FSE 2007, LNCS 4593, Springer-Verlag, 2007.

Miscellaneous

• French: mother language.
• English spoken and written fluently
• Main computer languages known: C, Java, shell, Pascal, Basic, Assembly (80x86, 6809, Alpha)
• Knowledge of FPGA programming
• Strong experience in programming (15 years), system programming on Unix systems (12 years) and system administration (10 years)
• Member of the International Association for Cryptologic Research since 1997