Anne Canteaut

Anne Canteaut is a French researcher in cryptography, working at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) in Paris. She studies the design and cryptanalysis of symmetric-key algorithms and S-boxes.

Anne Canteaut
Nationality	French
Education	ENSTA (1993) Paris VI (1996)
Scientific career
Fields	Cryptography
Institutions	INRIA
Thesis	Attaques de cryptosystèmes à mots de poids faible et construction de fonctions t-résilientes  (1996)
Doctoral advisor	Paul Camion [fr]

Education and career

Canteaut earned a diploma in engineering from ENSTA Paris in 1993.^[1] She completed her doctorate at Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1996, with the dissertation Attaques de cryptosystèmes à mots de poids faible et construction de fonctions t-résilientes supervised by Paul Camion [fr].^[2]

She is currently the chair of the INRIA Evaluation Committee,^[3] and of the FSE steering committee.^[4] She was the scientific leader of the INRIA team SECRET between 2007 and 2019.

Cryptographic primitives

Canteaut has contributed to the design of several new cryptographic primitives:

• DECIM, a stream cipher submitted to the eSTREAM project^[5]
• SOSEMANUK, a stream cipher selected in the eSTREAM portfolio^[6]
• Shabal, a hash function submitted to the SHA-3 competition^[7]
• Prince, a lightweight block cipher^[8]

Recognition

Canteaut was awarded the Legion of Honour in 2019.^[9] She became a fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research in 2024.^[10] She was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 2025.^[11]