Cryptography

Cryptography is the science that studies secure communication in the presence of third parties. To do this, it uses a lot of tools from various areas such as Pure Mathematics, Computer Science, and even Engineering. Modern-day cryptography relies heavily on hard mathematical problems that come from Number Theory or other areas of mathematics, like factoring a product of two large primes, computing discrete logarithms, finding short vectors in lattices and decoding linear codes.

Cryptography is everywhere in our daily lives, and everyone is familiar with concepts such as Encryption, Authentication and Digital Signatures. As we delve deeper and deeper in a digital era, it is fundamental to ensure that cryptography can provide us with reliable methods for protecting our information. In particular, one of the most important and time-sensitive matters is designing Post-Quantum secure primitives. In fact, most of the cryptography in use today will be vulnerable once quantum computers with enough computational power are available. The process for designing, testing, optimizing and standardizing cryptographic primitives is long and intense, and with this in mind, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a competition to select a range of post-quantum primitives to become the new public-key cryptography standard.
https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography

FAU is also recognized as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense Research (CAE-R) for academic years 2019-2024.

FAU is recognized as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense Research (CAE-R) for academic years 2019-2024.

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The team in FAU’s Math Department is comprised of four faculty members who are internationally-recognized researchers in the cryptographic community.


Dr. Shi Bai	Dr. Edoardo Persichetti	Dr. Francesco Sica	Dr. Veronika Kuchta

FAU is actively involved in NIST's Post-Quantum Standardization process with four proposals for key-exchange/encryption protocols.

https://classic.mceliece.org/
http://bikesuite.org/
https://www.dags-project.org/
http://pqc-hqc.org

Current Grants and Projects

Books and Journals

nsa

Title: NCAE-C: Exploring Innovative Approaches for Post-Quantum Authentication
PI: Edoardo Persichetti
Sponsor: National Security Agency
Dates: 9/16/22 – 9/16/24
Total: $298,989

nsf National Science Foundation (NSF)
Collaborative Research - CISE-ANR: CNS Core: Small: Crytographic Hardness of Module Lattices
10/1/21-9/30/25
PI: Shi Bai
Amount Awarded: $264,337.00

nsf National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career (CAREER) award
3/15/21 - 4/30/26
Award receipient: Shi Bai
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Awarded: $500,675

nsa NSA - 2020 NCAE-C Florida Atlantic University Grant
9/1/20-8/31/22
PI: Edoardo Persichetti
Funding Agency: National Security Agency
(NCAE-C)
Awreded $322,180.00

nsa Determining Cryptographic Security Margins in the Presence of Quantum Computing
9/1/20 - 8/31/22
Award Recipient: Rainer Steinwandt
Funding Agency: National Security Agency
(NCAE-C)
Awarded: $161,091

NATO Toward a Quantum-Safe Communication Infrastructure
5/21/20-11/30/21
Award Recipient: Rainer Steinwandt
Funding Agency: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Awarded: $50,526

nsf Secure and Efficient Solutions for Post-Quantum Cryptography for Codes with Compact Representations
7/1/19-6/30/22
Award Recipient: Edoardo Persichetti
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Awarded: $499,946

cyberflorida Online Modules for Emerging Topics in Cryptography
7/1/19-6/30/21
Award Recipient: Rainer Steinwandt
Fundy Agency: Cyber Florida/Florida Center for Cybersecurity (FCC)
Awarded: $34,442

cyberflorida Young CryptograpHERs: a Cyber-security Summer Camp for K-12 Girls
7/1/19-12/31/20
Award Recipient: Edoardo Persichetti
Funding Agency: Cyber Florida/Florida Center for Cybersecurity (FCC)
Awarded: $73,930

NIST logo.svg A Platform for the Evaluation of Post-Quantum Primitives
12/15/18-12/14/21
Award Recipient: Edoardo Persichetti
Funding Agency: National Institute for Standards and Technology
Awarded: $194,980

Development of a Blockchain Oriented Security Class
7/01/2018 - 12/31/2019
Award Recipient: Koray Karabina
Funding Agency: Cyber Florida/Florida Center for Cybersecurity (FCC)

NIST logo.svg Lattice Algorithms for Post-Quantum Cryptography 12/15/2018 - 12/14/2021
Award Recipient: Shi Bai, Rainer Steinwandt
Funding Agency: National Institute for Standards and Technology
Awarded: $368,013

NATO Quantum-safe Authenticated Group Key Establishment
10/1/18-10/30/21
Award Recipient: Rainer Steinwandt
Funding Agency: Slovak University of Technology / NATO Project
Awarded: $85,443

NATO Secure Communication in the Quantum Era
Approved: Mar 2018
Co-Director US: Rainer Steinwandt
Funding Agency: NATO SPS

arl Emerging Side-Channel Resistant and Resource-Friendly Elliptic Curve Algorithms and Architectures
5/1/17 - 4/30/20
Award Recipient: Reza Azarderakhsh, Koray Karabina
Funding Agency: US Army

Studie Entwicklungsstand Quantencomputer/ Study development of quantum computer
1/10/17 - 1/9/20
Award Recipient: Rainer Steinwandt
Funding Agency: Saarland University (GER)/ German Federal Office for Information Security

nsf Privacy-Aware Wearable-Assisted Continuous Authentication Framework,
8/15/17 - 7/31/19
Award Recipient: Koray Karabina
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

cbc M. Baldi, E. Persichetti, and P. Santini (eds.):
8th International Workshop, CBCrypto 2020, Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 12087, 2020.

cbc M. Baldi, E. Persichetti, and P. Santini (eds.):
7th International Workshop on Code-Based Cryptography, CBC 2019, Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 11666, 2019.

pqc2019 J. Ding and R. Steinwandt (eds.): Post-Quantum Cryptography, 10th International Conference, PQCrypto, 2019; Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol, 11505, 2019.

pqcryptoproceedings T. Lange and R. Steinwandt (eds.):
Post-Quantum Cryptography, 9th International Conference, PQCrypto 2018, Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 10786, 2018.

pqc201811 M. I. González Vasco and R. Steinwandt:
Group Theoretic Cryptography, Chapman and Hall/CRC Cryptography, and Network Security Series, 2015

isc2010 M. Burmester, G. Tsudik, S.S. Magliveras, and I. Ilic (eds.): Information Security,13th International Conference, ISC 2010, Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6531, 2011.

secure2005 X Zou, B. Ramamurty, and S.S. Magliveras:
Secure Group Communications over Data Networks, Springer, 2005.

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Mathematical Cryptology