ICS / Research / Cryptography
Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Information and Computer Science

The Cryptography Group

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The Cryptography Group is led by Prof. Kaisa Nyberg. The core competence area of the group is development and application of different cryptanalytic methods for symmetric cryptographic primitives. The main focus is on linear cryptanalysis of stream ciphers, where the group has achieved significant improvements to the linear distinguishing attacks on stream ciphers. The second major direction of work is provable security for cryptographic protocols and in particular, privacy preserving data-mining and manually authenticated ad hoc key agreement protocols. The third direction of work is efficient and secure software implementation of elliptic curve cryptography.

Personnel



Projects


Current

  • BooMCrypt 2008-2011 (Academy of Finland)
  • CACE project 2008-2010 (EU FP7)
  • Privacy Crypto 2008-2011 (SFS and Nokia)
  • ECRYPT II NoE 2008-2012 (EU FP7)

Topics for Master's thesis on subjects related to the current research projects are available without funding or with partial funding only.

Past

  • Stream Cipher Project 2006-2008 MATINE
  • InHoNets project 2006-2007 TEKES
  • Packet Level Authentication (PLA) project 2006-2007 TEKES
  • CRYDAMI 2004-2007 Academy of Finland
  • Ad-Hoc Networks 2006-2007 Finnish Defence Forces

Courses



Cryptography Group until 2005