DDLS Jill Pipher, Ph. D. will give this lecture with a light reception immediately following
Abstract:
The problem solved by public key encryption is this: how can we create secure communication over an insecure channel (like the internet) between two people who have never met or shared a secret? The model application, unknown at the time of its invention, is you and any of your online vendors.
This lecture will provide some historical background on the subject of private and public key, encryption and explain some of the ideas involved in several different encryption systems. Particular attention will be focused on lattiice-based encryption schemes such as NTRU, an efficient public key system due to Hoffstein, Pipher, and Silverman, first disseminated in1996, which continues to remain secure against the potential speed-ups of quantum computers. We will indicate some of the applications of lattice-based cryptosystems like NTRU to post-quantum computing and to cloud computing on private data.