Keynotes
Alban has served as President of EUROSMART since 2021 and board member since 2018. He is leading the association contribution on digital identity topics with a strong focus on the revision of eIDAS. Since 2021, he also co-chairs the Cybersecurity and Digital Identity (CDI) Committee of the association. Alban started working for IDEMIA in 2001. Since then, he has held various positions in R&D and the strategic marketing department in charge of International Organizations & Regulatory Affairs within the Public Security and Identity business unit. Today, Alban is heavily involved in the normalization works related to secure identity documents (identity cards, passports, travel documents etc.) and digital identity within ISO, CEN and ICAO. At the same time, Alban has been closely monitoring European affairs in the fields of identity, new technologies and cybersecurity.
eIDAS2: What Prospects and Stakes for Digital Trust?
The draft amendment to the eIDAS2 regulation includes many advances to strengthen digital trust. It contains provisions allowing the widespread use of qualified signatures, digital identity and strong authentication, and also introduces new trust services by defining a legal framework for them.
Marc Joye is a cryptographer and security technologist, and the Chief Scientist at Zama. He has been active in the field of cryptography for more than 25 years, from low-level implementations up to protocol design. He is a co-inventor of the ACJT group signature scheme and of the Joye-Libert homomorphic encryption scheme. Prior to Zama, Marc worked in a number of security companies, including as a Research Scientist at OneSpan, as a Fellow and Security Technologist at NXP Semiconductors, as a Fellow and Distinguished Scientist at Technicolor, and as a Scientific Expert at Gemalto. He has co-authored over 170 scientific papers, has more than 11,000 citations, and has filed more than 140 patent families. Marc holds a PhD in Cryptography from UCLouvain and is a member of the IACR.
FHE: End-to-End Encryption for Everyone
First posed as a challenge in 1978 by Rivest et al., fully homomorphic encryption (FHE)—the ability to evaluate any function over encrypted data—was only solved in 2009 in a breakthrough result by Gentry (Commun. ACM, 2010). After a decade of intense research, practical solutions have emerged and are being pushed for standardization. This talk reviews the basics behind FHE and discusses applications thereof based on the Concrete framework.
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Zero Trust - Should you Trust it?
The Zero Trust architecture model is, according to the cybersecurity market, the promise that will respond to all your security issues. This model, a direct descendant of the “defense in depth” philosophy, constitutes a modification of the paradigm of perimeter defense. This intervention will return to the origin of Zero Trust, the principles underlying this model and an insight into when and how to integrate Zero Trust into an information system according to the ANSSI.
Since June 2021, Jean-Karim ZINZINDOHOUE has held the position of technical director within the France Identity digital program. Previously, he was head of the cross-functional services office of the digital department of the Ministry of the Interior.
France Identity: an Architecture at the Service of Better Control of Personal Data
In a context of the generalization of online procedures and where identity fraud and data leaks constitute real risks, the French Government launched the France Identity digital program in 2018 in order to design and implement a digital identification for all citizens. Available in Beta version on Android and iOS, France Identity makes it possible to interface via NFC (contactless) with the new French national identity card and the data it contains in order to facilitate sharing with private companies or public institutions. It aims to guarantee users the respect of their private life and the protection of their online identity. Ultimately, it will offer users a reliable high-level electronic identification solution. This presentation will address the architectural choices of the France Identity application and the Digital Identity Guarantee Service (SGIN in french) on which it is based, as well as the associated security issues.