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[Video] Kristin Lauter from Microsoft Research and University of Washington

Friday, January 13, 2012 - 2:30pm
DEN 216

Elliptic Curve Cryptography and Applications

Kristin Lauter from Microsoft Research and University of Washington

 

In the last 25 years, Elliptic Curve Cryptography has become a mainstream primitive for cryptographic protocols and applications. This talk will give a survey of elliptic curve cryptography and its applications, including applications of pairing-based cryptography which are built with elliptic curves. No prior knowledge about elliptic curves is required for this talk. One of the information-theoretic applications I will cover is a solution to prevent pollution attacks in content distribution networks which use network coding to achieve optimal throughput. One solution is based on a pairing-based signature scheme using elliptic curves. I will also discuss some applications to privacy of electronic medical records, and implications for secure and private cloud storage and cloud computing.

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