Jean-Guillaume Dumas is professor (Professeur des universités) at the University of Grenoble. He works in computer algebra at the applied mathematics and computer science J. Kuntzmann department (LJK) in Grenoble. He teaches security, programming languages, cryptology and computer algebra at the University of Grenoble, notably in the Security and Cryptology of Information Systems section of the Master of Science in Informatics at Grenoble. Jean-Guillaume Dumas is also the author of more than 60 books, chapters, research or popularization articles in scientific journals, or international conference proceedings.

Jean-Louis Roch is associate professor (Maître de conférences) at the National Polytechnique Institute of Grenoble (INPG). He teaches security, coding theory, cryptology, parallelism, algorithms at the National Polytechnique Institute of Grenoble, and is the founder and head of the Security and Cryptology of Information Systems section of the Master of Science in Informatics at Grenoble. His research topics include fault-tolerance and security of global computations; parallel programming, scheduling and libraries; complexity theory at the Grenoble Informatics Laboratory (LIG). He is the author of more than 130 books, book chapters, research or popularization articles in scientific journals and international conference proceedings.

Eric Tannier is a research associate at the national french institute for computer science (INRIA). He works in computational biology in the biometry and evolutionary biology laboratory (LBBE) of the university of Lyon. He teaches discrete mathematics, algorithmics and comparative genomics at the applied science engineering school (INSA), and epistemology at the free university of Lyon (UPL). He is the author of several books in mathematics, computer science, computational biology and history. He also wrote about 30 research or popularization articles in scientific journals, or international conference proceedings.

Sébastien Varrette is a research associate at the University of Luxembourg. He is a former student from the Telecom department the Grenoble Institute of Technology (ENSERG/ENSIMAG) where he obtained his engineering degree in Computer Science together with his master’s degree in Cryptology, Security and Information Coding with honours in 2003. He obtained his PhD in computer science entitled “Security in Large Scale Computing Systems: Authentication and Result Checking” in 2007. His main research interest focus on the security of distributed systems such as grids or clouds, typically on integrity and confidentiality issues. He co-authored three books and seven book chapters in computer science. He also wrote about 40 research or popularization articles in scientific journals, or international conference proceedings.