Ludovic Barman
Security enthusiast / Software engineer
Hi, I'm Ludovic.
I am a 4th-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 ! my address: firstname.lastname@protonmail.com
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Public key : 720F 1E8F 1AD4 0505 ABFB 625C 5713 53C5 E0FB 9061 (View my Keybase.io profile)
Last update : 10.04.2019
Blog posts
- IoT Home Automation with 3D-Printing read it say Hi to Gasparov. January 2019
Keeping my fish and plants alive while I'm away. - A TLS downgrade attack with NetFilter's Queues and Docker read it. November 2017
Try your very own MitM and downgrade attack now ! (limited offer). - 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 !
Projects
The following section contains published papers and other public documents, as well as personal projects.
- Reducing Metadata Leakage from Encrypted Files and Communication with PURBs. 2018
Kirill Nikitin & Ludovic Barman, Matthew Underwood, Bryan Ford
read the arXiv paper, check out the github repo - Vaultage, a self-hosted, in-browser password manager with client-side encryption. since 2015
Ludovic Barman, Hadrien Milano
check out the github repo, read the doc, try out the live demo.
- PriFi: A Low-Latency Local-Area Anonymous Communication Network. since 2015
Ludovic Barman, Italo Dacosta, Mahdi Zamani, Ennan Zhai, Bryan Ford, Joan Feigenbaum, Jean-Pierre Hubaux
read the arXiv paper, check out the github repo -
past projects
- PriFi: A Low-Latency and Tracking-Resistant Protocol for Local-Area Anonymous Communication, 2016
L Barman, M Zamani, I Dacosta, J Feigenbaum, B Ford, J-P Hubaux, D Wolinsky
In the Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society 2016 (WPES 2016)
read the paper - Mirror: Enabling Proofs of Data Replication and Retrievability in the Cloud 2015
F Armknecht, L Barman, J-M Bohli, G Karame (NEC Laboratories Europe)
In 25rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 16)
read the paper - Proofs of Retrievability and Redundancy, 2015
Master Thesis, NEC Laboratories Europe, Heidelberg
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 Payment protocol, 2014
Master Semester project with LASEC, EPFL. Supervisor : Sebastian Faust, Professor : Serge Vaudenay. - Stratus Cloud, a non-proprietary secure cloud extension, with fine-grained rights,
2014
Master Semester project with LASEC, EPFL. Supervisor : Alexandre Duc, Professor : Serge Vaudenay. - Seminar on ZeroCoins and Bitcoin 2014
- Security analysis of a novel two-factor authentication scheme, based on hand gesture on iPad.
2013
Bachelor Security class at NUS, the National University of Singapore
Resume
- Teaching assistant at the EPFL (part of the PhD program).
since 2015
For the class "Mobile Networks", where I was responsible for the chapters on Antennas and Cellular Networks.
For the class "Introduction to Java & POO", where I was responsible for the MOOCs automatic grader. - Intern at NEC Laboratories Europe, Heidelberg.
2015
Implementation and benchmarking on a project on Cloud Security (Mirror). - Comitee member at Hacker EPFL. 2014
- Project manager & Partenership at Junior Entreprise EPFL. 2014
- Software Engineer at Intemporare. since 2013
- Web Developer at Sunergic SA.
2012 - 2014
Creation of a monitoring application for Siemens solar pannel inverter; creation of a roof design wizard in Angular.js that allows users to tile their roof with their choice of solar panels, and compute expected efficiency and income. Creation of a custom CMS that includes the roof design wizard and generates PDF invoices. - Web Developer at Junior Entreprise EPFL.
2010 - 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.
2012
For the class "System-oriented Programming", where students learn SH, C, Perl, and unix basis. - Teaching assistant at the EPFL.
2012
Semester project in Java, involving cryptography and networking - Web Developper at CJ Online Works SaRL.
2008 - 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. 2013 - 2015
- NUS, Singapore : one-year exchange in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. 2012 - 2013
- EPFL, Lausanne : Bachelor in Communications Systems. 2010 - 2013
Demos
- TuringWars : A game where small programs fight on a shared computer! (reboot of CoreWars)since 2017
Technologies: Scala+ScalaJS (backend engine), Express/Typescript/TypeORM/React/Redux (backend + frontend), Webpack/Docker (infra)
Made in 24h @ Lauzhack, then improved with hmil during our free time. - Vaultage : a self-hosted, in-browser password manager with client-side encryption. since 2015
Technologies: Express/Typescript, SJCL (crypto), Jest/Jasmine+Pupeteer (testing), NPM package (infra)
Still used today and henced maintained, but has been stable for some time.