Nominator's project description
| Without encryption technologies and safe digital signatures, many applications in the Internet, such as home banking or online shopping, would not be possible. But cryptographers, who make encryptions, and hackers, who attempt to circumvent them, are constantly in a neck-to-neck race. Novel algorithms such as those that could be realised on quantum computers and ever more offensive and clever strategies of the hackers are demanding the development of cryptotechnologies of the next generation such as those that Eike Kiltz’s work is focusing on. Kiltz uses familiar highly complex mathematical problems and assumptions in which he seeks keys to new and alternative security models. |
