Ludovic Barman
Security enthusiast / Software engineer

Hi, I'm Ludovic.

I am a 2^nd-year PhD student at the EPFL, working on the topics of Privacy and Security with Prof. Jean-Pierre Hubaux and Prof. Bryan Ford. I have a strong interest in security and cryptography; I love to code, design solutions, and ultimately I am a technology enthusiast, curious about everything.

Feel free to drop me a line ! (better : encrypt it beforehand).

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Public key : 720F 1E8F 1AD4 0505 ABFB 625C 5713 53C5 E0FB 9061 (View my Keybase.io profile)

Last update : 30.04.2017

Projects

• Trying to see how many people I can pwn with my Rubber Ducky Key. Live score : 0. started in 2016
  check out the results.
• Completing the hacking challenges on Root-me.org, live score : 2020pts (100/276)
  and pentesting some vulnerables VMs on vulnhub.com. started in 2016
• Vaultage, a self-hosted, in-browser password manager with client-side encryption. started in 2015
  check out the github repo, read the doc, try out the live demo (read the doc first ;) )
• PriFi, A Low-Latency and Tracking-Resistant Protocol for Local-Area Anonymous Communications. started in 2015
  Ludovic Barman¹, Mahdi Zamani², Italo Dacosta¹, Joan Feigenbaum², Bryan Ford¹, Jean-Pierre Hubaux¹, David Wolinsky³ (¹EPFL, ²Yale University, ³Facebook)
  read the paper, check out the github repo

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  past projects

• Mirror: Enabling Proofs of Data Replication and Retrievability in the Cloud, 2015
  Frederik Armknecht (University of Mannheim); Ludovic Barman, Jens-Matthias Bohli, and Ghassan O. Karame (NEC Laboratories Europe)
  In 25rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 16)
  read the paper
• Privacy Threats and Practical Solutions for Genetic Risk Tests, 2015
  L Barman, E Graini, JL Raisaro, E Ayday, JP Hubaux
  2nd International Workshop on Genome Privacy and Security (GenoPri" 15)
  read the paper
• Proofs of Retrievability and Redundancy, February to August 2015
  Master Thesis done at NEC Laboratories Europe, Heidelberg, DE
  Supervised by Ghassan Karame (NEC Laboratories Europe) and Philippe Oechslin (LASEC, EPFL).
  read the document, or take a look at the presentation
• Project on Bitcoin Fast Payement protocol, Decembre 2014
  Master Semester project with LASEC, EPFL. Supervisor : Sebastian Faust, Professor : Serge Vaudenay.
  read the document
• Stratus Cloud, a non-proprietary secure cloud extension, with fine-grained rights, June 2014
  Master Semester project with LASEC, EPFL. Supervisor : Alexandre Duc, Professor : Serge Vaudenay.
  read the document, take a look at the presentation, or see the project on Bitbucket
• Seminar on ZeroCoins and Bitcoin, February 2014
  read the document, or take a look at the presentation
• Security analysis of a novel two-factor authentication scheme, based on hand gesture on iPad. March 2013
  Bachelor Security class at NUS, the National University of Singapore

Blog posts

• A Journey into Stack Smashing read it ! April 2017
  A first attempt at crackme's.
• Should I trust the github activity summary ? read it ! December 2016
  A «hello world» on github
• Escaping the PyJail. read it ! August 2016
  Getting out of a python sandbox (Hacking challenge).
• Hunting Aurora Borealis : a Cookbook. read it ! February 2016
  A step-by-step guide unraveling the mysteries of Nothern Lights !
• My photo galleries : Japan, China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
  view them

Experience / Resume

• Teaching assistant at the EPFL (part of the PhD program). February 2016 to June 2016
  For the class "Mobile Networks", where I was responsible for the chapters on Antennas and Cellular Networks.
• Intern at NEC Laboratories Europe, Heidelberg. February 2015 to August 2015
  Implementation and benchmarking on a project on Cloud Security (Mirror).
• Comitee member at Hacker EPFL. March 2014 to Decembre 2014
  learn what we do
• Project manager & Partenership at Junior Entreprise EPFL. February 2014 to Decembre 2014
  learn what we do
• Software Engineer at Intemporare. since November 2013
• Web Developer at Sunergic SA. April 2012 to Decembre 2014
  July 2012 - Design and coding of a complete Content Management System (CMS) adapted to Sunergic’s needs
  October 2012 - Integration to the website’s page design of an online roof design Wizard, a web based Wysiwyg application using Standard Vectorized Graphics (.svg) script libraries, that allows users to dimension a residential photovoltaic system within minutes.
  November 2012 - Design and coding of an online Monitoring application for Siemens solar inverters
  January 2013 - Integration of the online roof design Wizard application into the CMS
  March 2013 - Integration of SVG export to the online roof design Wizard application
  June 2014 - Second version of the roof design wizard application with Angular.js
• Web Developer at Junior Entreprise EPFL. November 2010 to June 2012
  Several web development projects, including a website to create online survey and analyze the results via statistics and graphs.
• Teaching assistant at the EPFL. February 2012 to June 2012
  For the class "System-oriented Programming", where students learn SH, C, Perl, and unix basis.
• Teaching assistant at the EPFL. February 2012 to June 2012
  Semester project in Java, involving cryptography and networking
• Web Developper at CJ Online Works SaRL. Mai 2008 to Octobre 2011
  Redesign of a C# application for car automation, and several web development projects.

Education

• EPFL, Lausanne : PhD in Security and Privacy, with Jean-Pierre Hubaux and Bryan Ford. started in 2015
• EPFL, Lausanne : Master in Communications Systems, specialized in Security. from 2013 - 2015
• NUS, Singapore : one-year exchange in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. from 2012 to 2013
• EPFL, Lausanne : Bachelor in Communications Systems. from 2010 to 2013