Marc Stevens
- Full Name
- Dr.ir. M.M.J. Stevens
- Function(s)
- Scientific Staff Member
- Marc.Stevens@cwi.nl
- Telephone
- +31 20 592 4054
- Room
- M261
- Department(s)
- Cryptology
- Homepage
- https://marc-stevens.nl/research
Biography
Marc Stevens is a tenured researcher at the Cryptology Group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD in 2012 from the Mathematical Institute, Leiden University, for which he was awarded the KHMW (The Royal Holland Society of Sciences) Martinus van Marum prize. He is an expert in cryptanalysis, with emphasis on practical attacks on MD5 and SHA-1. Research highlights are the construction of the MD5 'rogue' Certification Authority (CRYPTO'09 Best Paper Award), the invention of counter-cryptanalysis and the reconstruction of the cryptanalytic attack in the supermalware Flame (CRYPTO'13 Best Young Researcher Paper Award), and the achievement of the first collision for full SHA-1 (CRYPTO'17 Best Paper Award & 2017 Pwnie Award for best cryptologic attack).Research
Publications
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van Baarsen, A.N, & Stevens, M.M.J. (2021). On time-lock cryptographic assumptions in abelian hidden-order groups. In Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT (pp. 367–397). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-92075-3_13
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Ducas, L, Stevens, M.M.J, & van Woerden, W.P.J. (2021). Advanced lattice sieving on GPUs, with Tensor Cores. In Proceedings of EUROCRYPT 2021 (pp. 249–279). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-77886-6_9
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Landerreche, E, Stevens, M.M.J, & Schaffner, C. (2020). Non-interactive Cryptographic timestamping through based on Verifiable Delay Functions. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.
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Albrecht, M, Ducas, L, Herold, G, Kirshanova, E, Postlethwaite, E.W, & Stevens, M.M.J. (2019). The General Sieve Kernel and New Records in Lattice Reduction. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-17656-3_25
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Landerreche, E, & Stevens, M.M.J. (2018). On immutability of blockchains. In Proceedings of the 1st ERCIM Blockchain Workshop 2018. doi:10.18420/blockchain2018_04
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Stevens, M.M.J, Bursztein, E, Karpman, P, Albertini, A, & Markov, Y. (2017). The first collision for full SHA-1. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (pp. 570–596). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-63688-7_19
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Makarim, R.H, & Stevens, M.M.J. (2017). M4GB: An efficient Gröbner-basis algorithm. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, ISSAC (pp. 293–300). doi:10.1145/3087604.3087638
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Canteaut, A, Lambooij, E, Neves, S, Rasoolzadeh, S, Sasaki, Y, & Stevens, M.M.J. (2017). Refined Probability of Differential Characteristics Including Dependency Between Multiple Rounds. IACR Transactions in Symmetric Cryptology, 2017(2), 203–227. doi:10.13154/tosc.v2017.i2.203-227
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Stevens, M.M.J, E. Burztein (Eilie), Karpman, P, A. Albertini (Ange), & Y. Markov (Yarik). (2017). The first collision for full SHA-1.
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Stevens, M.M.J, & Shumow, D. (2017). Speeding up detection of SHA-1 collision attacks using unavoidable attack conditions. In Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium.
Current projects with external funding
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Secure scalable policy-enforced distributed data processing ()
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Alliance for Privacy Preserving Detection of Financial Crime (APP-DFC) - in kind bijdrage CWI (APP-DFC)
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Ontwikkelen en uitwerken van een Manual en Dashboard naar Post Quantum Crypto (PQC) standaarden (None)
Grants
- 2014 - Veni Innovational Research Grant NWO - Counter-cryptanalysis of Cryptologic Primitives (2014)
Awards
- Pwnie Award for Best Cryptographic Attack (2017)
- Best paper award - CRYPTO 2017 (2017)
- Google Junior Faculty Applied Research Award in Security, Privacy & Anti-abuse (2016)
- Best young researcher paper award - CRYPTO 2013 (2013)
- Martinus van Marum Prize - Awarded by the KHMW & J.C. Ruigrok Stichting (2013)
- Best paper award - CRYPTO 2009 (2009)
- Best Master Thesis - TU/e (2007)