Dra. María Naya-Plasencia
Directora de Investigación en INRIA, Francia
PI of the ERC Consolidator grant SoBaSyC
Symmetric cryptography has made important advances in recent years, mainly due to new challenges that have appeared, requiring some new developments. During this talk we will discuss these challenges and developments, with a particular emphasis on quantum-safe symmetric cryptography and latest results, providing the details of some particularly interesting cases. We will also discuss some related open problems.
Bio: María Naya-Plasencia has a double degree telecommunications engineer diploma from ETSIT UPM and Telecom Sud Paris. She then followed the Applied Algebra Master from Versailles University, and defended her PhD in 2009.
She has been an Inria researcher since 2012 and a Research Director since 2018. She works in the field of cryptography, with an emphasis on symmetric cryptography and quantum cryptanalysis. She has been the PIof the ERC Starting grant QUASYModo and is currently the PI of the ERC Consolidator grant SoBaSyCon those topics. She was the co-editor-in-chief of the ToSC IACR Journal in 2016-2017, and wason the editorial board of DCC from2020 to 2024. She has served in many PC’s of the most important conferences in cryptography, has co-organized 6Dagstuhl seminars and is an elected member of the board of directors of the IACR since2024. She has given several invited talks, like for instance FSE 2019 and Eurocrypt 2022.
Organizan: María Isabel González Vasco y Luis Hernández Encinas Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Grupo de Investigación en Criptología y Seguridad de la Información (GiCSI), ITEFI-CSIC
Agradecimientos: Proyectos NATO SPS G5985 y P2QProMeTe PID2020-112586RB-I00
