Laz Panard ☕️
Laz Panard

Ph.D Student

About Me

I (they/them) am a Ph.D candidate in lattice-based cryptography, I am part of the ECO Team (CNRS, LIRMM) and my supervisors are Katharina Boudgoust and Laurent Imbert. My interests lie in the design of quantum resilient asymmetric cryptographic primitives and the problems surrounding their implementation, with a focus on lattice-based cryptology and advanced designs (threshold, aggregation, etc.).

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Interests
  • Quantum Resilient Cryptography
  • Digital Signatures
  • Advanced Asymmetric Schemes
  • Computational Problems
  • Lattice-Based Cryptography
Education
  • Ph.D in Cryptography

    Montpellier University

  • Engineer Diploma in Cybersecurity and Digital Platforms

    IMT Atlantique (a French "grande école")

  • MSc in Computer Science (Cybersecurity)

    Rennes University

  • Preparation Classes for "Grandes Ecoles"

    Kleber High School (Strasbourg, France)

My Research

My research is focused on crytpographic primitives based on lattices and their implementations. I currently work on “hash-then-sign” signatures in the like of the FALCON protocol, with a focus on the security limitations (from a theorical and practical point of view). I am also interested by advanced schemes regarding the aggregation of signatures or threshold signature.

I am not only working on the design of these cryptosystems but also on their implementations, in particular with SageMath or C, bridging the gap between the maths of cryptology and the implementations the real world calls for, and the study of the masking solutions for these cryptosystems.

If any of those subjects is of interest to you and you would like to collaborate please don’t hesitate to reach out !