Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the year

The highlights for year 2009 in the Cacao project-team are:

• J. Detrey and N. Estibals received the Best Paper Award at the CHES 2009 conference for their paper on hardware accelerators for the Tate pairing [8] , in collaboration with J.-L. Beuchat and E. Okamoto (LCIS, University of Tsukuba, Japan); and F. Rodríguez-Henríquez (CINVESTAV, IPN, Mexico).

• The departure of our team leader Guillaume Hanrot, who joined the Arenaire project-team in Lyon in October.