ACG is involved in various areas of research. Several cryptographic mechanisms co-authored by (current or former) ACG members have been selected in international competitions, and standardized by international organizations. Publications from ACG members are published in international conferences.
eSTREAM project (2004): DECIMv2 (finalist). Côme Berbain, Olivier Billet, Anne Canteaut, Nicolas T. Courtois, Blandine Debraize, Henri Gilbert, Louis Goubin, Aline Gouget, Louis Granboulan, Cédric Lauradoux, Marine Minier, Thomas Pornin, Hervé Sibert.
NIST's Cryptographic Hash Algorithm Competition (2008): Shabal. Emmanuel Bresson, Anne Canteaut, Benoît Chevallier-Mames, Christophe Clavier, Thomas Fuhr, Aline Gouget, Thomas Icart, Jean-François Misarsky, María Naya-Plasencia, Pascal Paillier, Thomas Pornin, Jean-René Reinhard, Céline Thuillet, Marion Videau.
NIST's Post-Quantum Cryptography Competitions (2016, 2022):
GeMSS (alternate candidate). Antoine Casanova, Jean-Charles Faugère, Gilles Macario-Rat, Jacques Patarin, Ludovic Perret, Jocelyn Ryckeghem.
VOX. Benoît Cogliati, Jean-Charles Faugère, Pierre-Alain Fouque, Louis Goubin, Robin Larrieu, Gilles Macario-Rat, Brice Minaud, Jacques Patarin.
Prov. Benoît Cogliati, Jean-Charles Faugère, Pierre-Alain Fouque, Louis Goubin, Robin Larrieu, Gilles Macario-Rat, Brice Minaud, Jacques Patarin.
Chinese Association for Cryptologic Research's Post-Quantum Cryptography Competition: PKP-DSS (3rd prize). Ward Beullens, Jean-Charles Faugère, Eliane Koussa, Gilles Macario-Rat, Jacques Patarin, Ludovic Perret.
ISO/IEC 20008-2 (Mechanism 2): Anonymous digital signatures using a group public key. Algorithms PS-GS, David Pointcheval, Olivier Sanders, and PS-DAA, Amira Barki, Nicolas Desmoulins, Saïd Gharout, Jacques Traoré.
ISO/IEC 18370-2 (Mechanisms 3 and 5): Blind digital signatures based on discrete logarithm.
ISO/IEC 9798-5: Entity authentication using zero-knowledge techniques. Algorithms GQ2, and GPS, Marc Girault, Guillaume Poupard, Jacques Stern.
ISO/IEC 14888-2: Digital signatures based on integer factorization. Algorithms GQ1, GQ2, GPS1, GPS2.
ISO/IEC 18033-4: Stream ciphers. Algorithm DECIMv2. Côme Berbain, Olivier Billet, Anne Canteaut, Nicolas T. Courtois, Blandine Debraize, Henri Gilbert, Louis Goubin, Aline Gouget, Louis Granboulan, Cédric Lauradoux, Marine Minier, Thomas Pornin, Hervé Sibert.
ISO/IEC 29192-2: Lightweight block ciphers. Algorithm PRESENT. Andrey Bogdanov, Lars R. Knudsen, Gregor Leander, Christof Paar, Axel Poschmann, Matt J. B. Robshaw, Yannick Seurin, C. Vikkelsoe.
ISO-IEC 29192-4: Lightweight asymmetric algorithms. Algorithm cryptoGPS. Marc Girault, Guillaume Poupard, Jacques Stern.
ISO/IEC 29167-17: Automatic identification and data capture techniques. Algorithm cryptoGPS. Marc Girault, Guillaume Poupard, Jacques Stern.