NYU Cryptography Group

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NYU Cryptography Group

• Faculty Yevgeniy Dodis, Victor Shoup
• Students Joel Alwen, Carl Bosley, Sherman Chow,
  Dario Fiore, Kris Haralambiev, Aris Tentes,
  Daniel Wichs
• Reading Group Wed 150-320, room 101
  http//www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
• Agenda design provably secure solutions for
  important applications
• Skills familiarity with proofs (logic?), open
  mind, probability and number theory,
  cryptanalysis (pretend you are a bad guy)

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Some Projects

• Cryptography from Biometrics and Other Noisy Data
  (how to use your fingerprints?)
• Hash Function Design and Analysis
• Concurrent Composition of Protocols
• Basing Cryptography on Imperfect Randomness (do
  you trust your coins?)
• Secure Encryption Signature Schemes
• Bounded Retrieval Model
• Game Theory and Cryptography