Nicolas PRIGENT, Ph.D.
Research Engineer
Thomson Security Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA


Research Interest

My research interest lies in content, network and system security. I'm more particularly interested in the security of self-organized networks such as ad hoc networks and peer-to-peer networks.


What's new and important?

1th of September 2008: After Sunny California, let's now visit Beautiful-During-the-Falls New Jersey! I'm now in the Thomson Princeton Security Laboratory.

15th of July 2008: I presented a poster entitled "Security-Oriented Peer Profiling in Peer-to-Peer Networks" at the DARPA DOSR (Digital Object Storage and Retrieval) workshop.

25th of June 2008: Les Echos published an article about Medi@sure, a collaborative project to which Thomson, Orange R&D and the Université de Caen participates and that I contributed to launch.

April 2008: After more than 6 years in Thomson Rennes Security Laboratory, I just joined the Thomson Burbank Security Laboratory.

What's new and random?


Selected Publications

Nicolas Prigent and Jeffrey Bloom, Security-Oriented Peer Profiling in Peer-to-Peer Networks, in DARPA DOSR workshop, poster session, July 2008, Chantilly, VA.

Olivier Heen, Thomas Genet, Stéphane Geller and Nicolas Prigent, An Industrial and Academic Joint Experiment on Automated Verification of a Security Protocol, in Mobile and Wireless Networks Security 2008, co-located with IFIP Networking 2008, May 5-9, 2008, Singapore.

Nicolas Prigent, Mohamed Karroumi, Mathieu Chauvin, Marc Eluard and Yves Maetz, AACS, Nouveau Standard de Protection des Contenus Pré-Enregistrés Haute-Définition ("AACS, the new standard for protection of high-definition prerecorded contents"), in Proceedings of the C&ESAR 2007 Conference, 2007, Rennes, France.

Christoph Neumann, Nicolas Prigent, Matteo Varvello and Kyoungwon Suh, Challenges in Peer-to-Peer Gaming, in ACM Computer Communication Review , Vol. 37 Issue 1, January 2007.

Nicolas Prigent, Faire face à l'Intrusion ("Intrusion Reaction"), in La Lettre Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information, Techniques de l'Ingénieur, Issue 9, May-June 2006.

Nicolas Prigent, Contribution à la sécurité des réseaux dynamiques auto-configurabless : application aux réseaux domestiques(Security of dynamic and self-configurable networks: applications to home networks), Ph.D Thesis, October 2005.

Nicolas Prigent and Christophe Bidan, Securing devices communities in spontaneous networks, in International Scientific Journal of Computing, Vol. 4 Issue 2., Hervé Debar guest editor, 2005.

Nicolas Prigent, Christophe Bidan, Olivier Heen and Olivier Courtay, Configuration automatisée des services de sécurité de communautés d'appareils dans les réseaux spontanés ("Automated configuration of the security services for communities of devices in spontaneous networks"), in Actes de la quatrième conférence sur la Sécurité et les Architectures Réseaux (SAR), 2005, Batz-sur-Mer, France.

Nicolas Prigent and Jean-Pierre Andreaux, Gestion sécurisée de groupes dynamiques de dispositifs dans les réseaux domestiques ("Secure Management of dynamical groups of devices in home networks"), in Actes du second Symposium sur la Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information et des Communications (SSTIC), June 2004, Rennes, France.

Olivier Heen, Jean-Pierre Andreaux and Nicolas Prigent, Improving Secure Device Insertion in Home Ad Hoc Networks, in Proceedings of the 19th IFIP International Information Security Conferences (IFIPsec), 2004, Toulouse, France.

Nicolas Prigent, Christophe Bidan, Jean-Pierre Andreaux and Olivier Heen, Secure Long Term Communities in Ad Hoc Networks, in Proceedings of the First ACM workshop on Security of Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (ACM SASN), held in conjunction with the tenth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), october 2003, George Masson University, Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.A.

Nicolas Prigent, Olivier Heen, Christophe Bidan and Alain Durand, Sécurité des Réseaux Domestiques ("Home networks security"), in Actes du premier Symposium sur la Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information et des Communications (SSTIC), June 2003, Rennes, France.

Nicolas Prigent, Jérome Marchand, Francis Dupont, Bernard Cousin, Maryline Maknavicius-Laurent and Julien Bournelle, DHCPv6 Threats, IETF draft, draft-prigent-dhcpv6-threats.txt, 2001.


Current Service Activities

Member of SARSSI 2009 Program Commity.
Member of SARSSI 2008 Program Commity.
Reviewer for many French and Internationnal conferences and journals.
Reviewer for French funding organizations (ANRT and RNRT).

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