Anne Canteaut | |
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Nationality | French |
Education | |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Cryptography |
Institutions | INRIA |
Thesis | Attaques de cryptosystèmes à mots de poids faible et construction de fonctions t-résilientes (1996) |
Doctoral advisor | Paul Camion |
Anne Canteaut is a French researcher in cryptography, working at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) in Paris. She studies the design and cryptanalysis of symmetric-key algorithms and S-boxes.
Canteaut earned a diploma in engineering from ENSTA Paris in 1993. [1] She completed her doctorate at Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1996, with the dissertation Attaques de cryptosystèmes à mots de poids faible et construction de fonctions t-résilientes supervised by Paul Camion . [2]
She is currently the chair of the INRIA Evaluation Committee, [3] and of the FSE steering committee. [4] She was the scientific leader of the INRIA team SECRET between 2007 and 2019.
Canteaut has contributed to the design of several new cryptographic primitives:
Canteaut was awarded the Legion of Honour in 2019. [9] She became a fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research in 2024. [10] She was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 2025. [11]