I am a PhD student at Ecole Polytechnique in the project-team GRACE at INRIA advised by Daniel Augot and François Morain.
My research focuses on zero-knowledge proofs (zkp), especially those based on elliptic curves and bilinear pairings. I am particularly interested in cryptographic primitives that are zkp-friendly. More generally, I am interested in applied cryptography to blockchains.
Youssef El Housni
elhousni at lix.polytechnique.fr
youssef.el-housni at inria.fr
Laboratoire d'Informatique (LIX)
École Polytechnique
91128 Palaiseau Cedex - France
Publications
Peer-reviewed- Optimized and secure pairing-friendly elliptic curves suitable for one layer proof composition. Youssef El Housni and Aurore Guillevic. 2020 International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS 2020).
- On the Performance and Security of Multiplication in GF(2N) Jean-Luc Danger, Youssef El Housni et al. MDPI Cryptography 2018, 2(3) (Special Issue Code-Based Cryptography).
- Random Numbers Generation: Tests and Attacks Sylvain Guilley and Youssef El Housni. 2018 Workshop on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography (FDTC 2018).
Talks
- Optimized and secure pairing-friendly elliptic curves suitable for one layer proof composition. At CANS2020, Dec 15 2020 (online).
- Optimized and secure pairing-friendly elliptic curves suitable for one layer proof composition. At zkSummit 5, Mar 31 2020 (online).
- Nightfall - The Open Source Privacy Solution for Ethereum. At DevCon 5, Oct 10 2019 (Osaka, Japan).
Patents
Pending- Device and method for testing a sequence generated by a random number generator. Youssef El Housni and Florent Lozac'h (SECURE-IC).