Academic Research

Organization of events

CyberSec Conference (2015-2016)

The aim of this conference is to provide practical advice to companies and share experts views on the trends and challenges we as people, company and society face when it comes to talk about Cyber Security. We organize a yearly conference.

I'm involved into the steering committee and I'm mainly in charge of the following activities:

  • Global event management/coordination
  • Program chair
  • Event organizer
  • Budget manager
  • Logistics manager
  • Staff manager and leader
  • Webmaster
  • Ticketing
  • Accounting
  • Sponsors

More informations here: http://www.cybersecurityalliance.ch.

Application Security Forum - Western Switzerland (2012-2013-2014)

The aim of this conference is to provide practical advice to companies and share experts views on the trends and challenges we as people, company and society face when it comes to talk about Application Security. We organize a yearly conference.

This event was held 5 times:

  • 2010 Université de Genève
  • 2011 HEIG-VD, Yverdon-les-Bains
  • 2012 Y-PARC, Yverdon-les-Bains
  • 2013 Y-PARC, Yverdon-les-Bains
  • 2014 Y-PARC, Yverdon-les-Bains

I was involved into the steering committee since 2012 and co-organized the 3rd, 4th and 5th editions. I was mainly in charge of the following activities:

  • Event co-organizer
  • Budget manager
  • Logistics manager
  • Staff manager and leader

Since 2015, this event is known as the "CyberSec Conference".

Publications, Books, and Talks

2015
 
  • Sécurité informatique - Cours et exercices corrigés, 3ème édition
    Gildas Avoine, Pascal Junod, Philippe Oechslin, and Sylvain Pasini,
    Vuibert, oct. 2015.
book
 
2010
 
  • Electromagnetic Emissions and Computer Security: Attacking Computer Keyboards,
    Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini,
    In the SEREC newsletter number 15, September 2010.
    [Switzerland]
talk
 
 
  • An improved technique to discover compromising electromagnetic emanations,
    Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini,
    In the proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, EMC 2010.
    [Florida, U.S.A.]
talk
 
2009
 
  • Compromising Electromagnetic Emanations of Wired and Wireless Keyboards,
    Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini,
    In the proceedings of the 18th USENIX Security Symposium.
    [Montreal, Canada]
    We received the outstanding student paper award.
bibtex talk article
 
 
  • Emanations compromettantes électromagnétique des claviers filaires et sans-fil (2ème partie),
    Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini,
    MISC magazine n°46, novembre/décembre 2009.
 link
 
 
  • Emanations compromettantes électromagnétique des claviers filaires et sans-fil,
    Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini,
    MISC magazine n°44, juillet/août 2009.
 link
 
 
  • Emanations compromettantes électromagnétique des claviers filaires et sans-fil,
    Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini,
    Invited talk at SSTIC '09: Symposium sur la Sécurité des Technologies de l'Information et des Communications.
    [Rennes, France]
 
 
  • Efficient Deniable Authentication for Signatures,
    Application to Machine-Readable Travel Document,
    Jean Monnerat, Sylvain Pasini, and Serge Vaudenay,
    In the proceedings of ACNS '09: the International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security.
    [Paris-Rocquencourt, France]
bibtex talk article
 
 
  • User-Aided Data Authentication,
    Sven Laur and Sylvain Pasini,
    International Journal of Security and Networks 2009 - Volume 4, No.1/2, pages 69 - 86.
bibtex   bibtex
 
2008
  • SAS-Based Group Authentication and Key Agreement Protocols,
    Sven Laur and Sylvain Pasini,
    In the proceedings of PKC '08: the 11th International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography.
    [Barcelona, Spain]
bibtex talk article
 
2007
  • Hash-and-Sign with Weak Hashing Made Secure,
    Sylvain Pasini and Serge Vaudenay,
    In the proceedings of ACISP'07: the 12th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy.
    [Townsville, Queensland, Australia]
bibtex talk article
 
  • Using Authenticated Channels To Achieve Secure Communications,
    Sylvain Pasini,
    Séminaire Cryptographie, Codes et Algorithmique (CCA).
    [Paris, France]
talk
 
2006
  • SAS-based Authenticated Key Agreement,
    Sylvain Pasini and Serge Vaudenay,
    In the proceedings of PKC'06: The 9th international workshop on theory and practice in public key cryptography.
    [New-York, NY, U.S.A.]
bibtex talk article
 
  • An Optimal Non-interactive Message Authentication Protocol,
    Sylvain Pasini and Serge Vaudenay,
    In the proceedings of CT-RSA'06: The Cryptographers' Track at the RSA Conference 2006.
    [San Jose, CA, U.S.A.]
bibtex talk article
 

PhD thesis (2009)

Sylvain started his PhD thesis on November 2005, and officially finished it on October 2nd, 2009.

It is entitled Secure Communication using Authenticated Channels.

Download the thesis

It is possible to download the PhD thesis in PDF format from here: pasini_phd_thesis.pdf.
The official link is http://library.epfl.ch/theses/?nr=4452.

Private PhD defense

Sylvain successfully defended his thesis on June 17th. The private PhD defense is accessible in different formats:

  • MOV: watch it with all animations (filesize: 50 MB),
  • HTML: watch it online,
  • PDF: watch it slide by slide (with no animations) or print it (10 MB),
  • PDF: watch it step by step (12 MB),

Public PhD defense

Sylvain officially obtained his PhD degree during his public defense on October 2nd, 2009. The public PhD defense is accessible in different formats:

  • MOV: watch it with all animations (filesize: 41 MB),
  • HTML: watch it online,
  • PDF: watch it slide by slide (with no animations) or print it (5 MB),
  • PDF: watch it step by step (7 MB),

Contribution to the Research World

Involved as external reviewer for several prestigious conferences:
Crypto, Eurocrypt, Asiacrypt, Africacrypt, PKC, FSE, SAC, ACISP, ACNS, CHES, ICALP, IWSec.

Page created April 23, 2009. Modified December 22, 2015.