Dayane Horkos
Cryptography Researcher · Paris
Researcher at the intersection of cybersecurity, cryptography, and applied mathematics. My work focuses on enhancing multi-cloud storage security — ensuring data confidentiality, availability, and integrity across distributed platforms. Passionate about the mathematical foundations of cryptography and committed to advancing secure data management.
Research & Publications
SoK: On Cryptography for Multi-Cloud Storage
A Systematization of Knowledge on cryptographic techniques in Multi-Cloud Storage. Classifies existing MCS approaches along two dimensions — architectural trust models and the cryptographic primitives used to achieve confidentiality, integrity, availability, access control, and auditability. Introduces a unified taxonomy, highlights recurring design patterns, and identifies open research gaps.
PhD Thesis — in progress
Designing and developing advanced cryptographic algorithms for multi-cloud storage. Research explores keyless and untrusted-proxy models, post-quantum cryptographic integration, and formal security proofs for distributed architectures.
Research Interests
Distributed storage security · Threshold cryptography · Secret sharing schemes · Proxy re-encryption · Multi-party computation · Formal game-based proofs · Post-quantum cryptographic primitives · Information dispersal algorithms.
Experience
Cryptography Researcher — CDI (CIFRE)
Research and development in cryptographic primitives for distributed multi-cloud storage. Spans threshold protocols, secret sharing, MPC, and formal game-based security proofs.
R&D Internship in Cryptography
Distributed storage primitives, threshold schemes, multi-cloud protocols, and formal security proofs. Led to the SoK publication and the CIFRE PhD contract.
University Projects
Fault injection attack on DES (C++) · Attack on a simplified RSA scheme (C).
Mathematics Tutor
Tutored undergraduate engineering students in analysis and algebra.
Education
PhD — CIFRE in Cryptography
Designing advanced cryptographic algorithms for multi-cloud storage.
Master 2 — Applied Algebra & Cryptography
IDEX Excellence Scholarship. Advanced algorithms, algebraic complexity, elliptic curves, algebraic geometry, effective algebra.
Master 1 — Applied Algebra & Cryptography
IDEX Excellence Scholarship. Cryptography, secure computation, information theory, elliptic curves, number theory, formal computation.
Bachelor's in Mathematics
Instruction in English.
Baccalauréat in General Sciences
Instruction in French.
Skills & Languages
Programming
SageMath, Python, C, C++
Writing & Tools
LaTeX, Microsoft Word, Git
Cryptographic Areas
Secret sharing, MPC, threshold primitives, erasure coding, formal proofs
Volunteer
Lebanese Red Cross — Youth Section, since 2018