Public key cryptography continues to be a fertile research area on the boundary of mathematics and computer science. In particular, there is a wide range of topics in computational number theory which are directly relevant for public key cryptography. The purpose of this LMS/EPSRC-funded one-day workshop was to increase the breadth of UK research in these areas.

The workshop featured four one-hour research seminars by leading international experts in various areas of computational number theory/cryptography.

The workshop was sponsored by the London Mathematical Society and EPSRC as part of the MathFIT initiative.

Lectures

Slides are available by clicking on the link.

• Professor Gerhard Frey (Essen), Perspectives of discrete log systems, pdf file.
• Pierrick Gaudry (Paris), Counting points on genus 2 curves over large prime fields, ps file.
• Phong Nguyen (Paris), The impact of decryption failures on the security of NTRU encryption, slides not available.
• Igor Shparlinski (Sydney), Hidden number problem in small subgroups, ps file (4 slides on each page). pdf file.

Schedule

Links

• Royal Holloway University of London
• Royal Holloway travel information
• Maps of Royal Holloway
• SECANTS
• Royal Holloway Number Theory Group
• Royal Holloway Information Security Group