Research

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher von Braun

Research interests

Main: Anonymity, Privacy, Computer Security, Network Security.
Secondary: Operating systems, cryptography, compilers, etc.

Publications

This list is infrequently updated. An auto-generated list from the publication repository at the University of Luxembourg can be found here. It may be more exhaustive and/or more up to date.

Books and Book chapters
[C_av] Sébastien Varrette and Nicolas Bernard. Programmation avancée en C avec exercices et corrigés. , 2007.
[secunix] Nicolas Bernard, Yves Denneulin and Sébastien Varrette. Sécurité Unix. Cryptographie et sécurité des systèmes et réseaux, 2006.
[secnet] Yves Denneulin, Nicolas Bernard, Pascal Bouvry and Sébastien Varrette. Sécurité Réseaux. Cryptographie et sécurité des systèmes et réseaux, 2006.

Articles
[expmath2009] Nicolas Bernard, Franck Leprévost and Michael Pöhst. Jacobians of genus $2$ curves with a rational point of order $11$. Journal of Experimental Mathematics, 18(1):65-70, 2009.
[e-soc2008] Nathalie Dagorn and Nicolas Bernard. Security and Privacy in the Digital Economy: How to Provide Anonymity in Electronic Commerce. Proceedings of the 6$^th$ IADIS e-Society International Conference (Algarve, April 9-12 2008), 2008.
[e-soc2006] Nathalie Dagorn and Nicolas Bernard. Security and Privacy in the Digital Economy: the Case of Electronic Commerce. Proceedings of the IADIS e-Society International Conference (Dublin, 13-16 July 2006), 2006.
[Internetwww05] Nathalie Dagorn and Nicolas Bernard. Web Hacking. Proceedings of the Fourth IADIS International Conference on the World Wide Web and the Internet (Internet/www 2005), 2005.
[icsit200507] Nathalie Dagorn, Nicolas Bernard and Sébastien Varrette. Practical Authentication in Distributed Environments. Proceedings of the First International Computer System and Information Technology Conference (ICSIT'05), Jul. 2005.
[sens200401] Nicolas Bernard. Une courte introduction à la cryptographie à courbes elliptiques. SENS, (1), Jan. 2004.

Research, technical or training period reports
[these08] Nicolas Bernard. Non-observabilité des communications à faible latence. Master thesis, Université du Luxembourg, Université de Grenoble 1 -- Joseph Fourier, 2008.
[OSBug08] Nathalie Dagorn and Nicolas Bernard. Les apports du modèle Open Source pour la correction des logiciels. Cahiers de recherche ICN, 2008(01), 2008.
[stage04] Nicolas Bernard. Non-observabilité des communications interactives. , 2004.
[stage03] Nicolas Bernard. Implémentation efficace du couplage de Weil en caractéristique trois et réalisation du protocole de Joux. , 2003.
[stage02] Nicolas Bernard. Etablissement de tests permettant de mesurer l'impact sur les performances de la sécurisation d'IPv6 par IPsec. , Sep. 2002.

Miscellaneous
Some other things I wrote are in the "Documents" page.

Books and Book chapters

Programmation avancée en C avec exercices et corrigés. 2007.
by Sébastien Varrette and Nicolas Bernard.
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month = {02},
year = {2007}
}


Sécurité Unix. 2006.
by Nicolas Bernard, Yves Denneulin and Sébastien Varrette.
@InProceedings{secunix,
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title = {Sécurité Unix},
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Sécurité Réseaux. 2006.
by Yves Denneulin, Nicolas Bernard, Pascal Bouvry and Sébastien Varrette.
@InProceedings{secnet,
author = {Yves Denneulin and Nicolas Bernard and Pascal Bouvry and Sébastien Varrette},
title = {Sécurité Réseaux},
booktitle = {Cryptographie et sécurité des systèmes et réseaux},
editor = {Franck Leprévost and Touradj Ebrahimi and Bertrand Warusfel},
publisher = {Hermes},
note = {\url{http://www.lavoisier.fr/fr/livres/index.asp?texte=2746212600&select=isbn&from=Hermes}},
year = {2006}
}


Articles

Jacobians of genus $2$ curves with a rational point of order $11$. 2009.
by Nicolas Bernard, Franck Leprévost and Michael Pöhst.
@Article{expmath2009,
author = {Nicolas Bernard and Franck Leprévost and Michael Pöhst},
title = {Jacobians of genus $2$ curves with a rational point of order $11$},
journal = {Journal of Experimental Mathematics},
number = {1},
volume = {18},
pages = {65-70},
year = {2009}
}


Security and Privacy in the Digital Economy: How to Provide Anonymity in Electronic Commerce. 2008.
by Nathalie Dagorn and Nicolas Bernard.
@InProceedings{e-soc2008,
author = {Nathalie Dagorn and Nicolas Bernard},
title = {Security and Privacy in the Digital Economy: How to Provide Anonymity in Electronic Commerce},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6$^{th}$ IADIS e-Society International Conference (Algarve, April 9-12 2008)},
month = {april},
year = {2008}
}


Security and Privacy in the Digital Economy: the Case of Electronic Commerce. 2006.
by Nathalie Dagorn and Nicolas Bernard.
@InProceedings{e-soc2006,
author = {Nathalie Dagorn and Nicolas Bernard},
title = {Security and Privacy in the Digital Economy: the Case of Electronic Commerce},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IADIS e-Society International Conference (Dublin, 13-16 July 2006)},
year = {2006}
}


Web Hacking. 2005.
by Nathalie Dagorn and Nicolas Bernard.
@InProceedings{Internetwww05,
author = {Nathalie Dagorn and Nicolas Bernard},
title = {Web Hacking},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourth IADIS International Conference on the World Wide Web and the Internet (Internet/www 2005)},
month = {October},
year = {2005}
}


Practical Authentication in Distributed Environments. 2005.
by Nathalie Dagorn, Nicolas Bernard and Sébastien Varrette.
@InProceedings{icsit200507,
author = {Nathalie Dagorn and Nicolas Bernard and Sébastien Varrette},
title = {Practical Authentication in Distributed Environments},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the First International Computer System and Information Technology Conference (ICSIT'05)},
editor = {},
month = {Jul},
year = {2005}
}


Une courte introduction à la cryptographie à courbes elliptiques. 2004.
by Nicolas Bernard.
@Article{sens200401,
author = {Nicolas Bernard},
title = {Une courte introduction à la cryptographie à courbes elliptiques},
journal = {SENS},
note = {\url{http://naryilco.ens-lyon.fr/Seminaires/journal/fnumero1.htm}},
number = {1},
month = {Jan},
year = {2004}
}


Research, technical or training period reports

Non-observabilité des communications à faible latence. 2008.
by Nicolas Bernard.

Defended on the 23 september 2008. Jury composition: Serge Vaudenay (president), Yves Denneulin, Olivier Festor, Franck Leprévost, Bruno Martin and Jean-Francois Méhaut.


@PhdThesis{these08,
author = {Nicolas Bernard},
title = {Non-observabilité des communications à faible latence},
school = {Université du Luxembourg, Université de Grenoble 1 -- Joseph Fourier},
year = {2008}
}


Les apports du modèle Open Source pour la correction des logiciels. 2008.
by Nathalie Dagorn and Nicolas Bernard.

Available on http://www.icn-groupe.fr/.


@Article{OSBug08,
author = {Nathalie Dagorn and Nicolas Bernard},
title = {Les apports du modèle Open Source pour la correction des logiciels},
journal = {Cahiers de recherche ICN},
number = {01},
volume = {2008},
year = {2008}
}


Non-observabilité des communications interactives. 2004.
by Nicolas Bernard.

More details on ../stages/dea/index.html


@Misc{stage04,
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title = {Non-observabilité des communications interactives},
note = {Trainig period under direction of Yves Denneulin and Franck Leprévost},
howpublished = {Training period report},
month = {June},
year = {2004}
}


Implémentation efficace du couplage de Weil en caractéristique trois et réalisation du protocole de Joux. [pdf] 2003.
by Nicolas Bernard.

More details on ../stages/weil/index.html


@Misc{stage03,
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institution = {UCL Crypto Group, ENS Lyon},
title = {Implémentation efficace du couplage de Weil en caractéristique trois et réalisation du protocole de Joux},
note = {Trainig period under direction of Jean-Jacques Quisquater and Benoît Libert},
howpublished = {Training period report},
month = {september},
year = {2003}
}


Etablissement de tests permettant de mesurer l'impact sur les performances de la sécurisation d'IPv6 par IPsec. [ps] 2002.
by Nicolas Bernard.

More details on ../stages/ipsec/index.html


@Misc{stage02,
author = {Nicolas {Bernard}},
institution = {LORIA, ENS Lyon},
title = {Etablissement de tests permettant de mesurer l'impact sur les performances de la sécurisation d'IPv6 par IPsec},
note = {Trainig period under direction of Isabelle Astic},
howpublished = {Training period report, LORIA's Technical report},
month = {Sep},
year = {2002}
}