Celebrating 60 Years of Cryptography Research: Insights from CERIAS Seminar 🎉

Recorded: 04/07/2010
CERIAS Security Seminar at Purdue University

60 years of scientific research in cryptography: a reflection

Yvo Desmedt, University College London, UK

Shannon started the unclassified scientific research in cryptography with hisOctober 1949 paper. First we briefly survey the scientific research incryptography since then. We discuss the strengths and weaknesses of thisresearch, attempting to present a balanced viewpoint.The lecture will also discuss the progress we have not made. We will show thatnot everything in modern cryptography is rosy. Besides above examples, we willalso talk about the discrepancy between the massive number of applications ofcryptography studied by academics and the fact most of these are being viewedas completely irrelevant to the real world.

Yvo Desmedt received his Ph.D. (Summa cum Laude) from the University ofLeuven, Belgium (1984). He is presently the Chair of InformationCommunication Technology at University College London, UK and Invited SeniorResearch Scientist at RCIS (AIST), Japan. He is also a courtesy professor atFlorida State University. His interests include cryptography, network securityand computer security. He was program chair of ICITS 2007, co-program chair ofCANS 2005, program chair of PKC 2003, the 2002 ACM Workshop on ScientificAspects of Cyber Terrorism and Crypto '94. He is editor-in-chief of the IETInformation Security, editor of the Journal of Computer Security, ofInformation Processing Letters and of Advances in Mathematics ofCommunications. He has given invited lectures at several conferences andworkshop in 5 different continents. He has authored over 150 refereed papers.He has 139 entries on DBLP. He is ranked as 4th most productive (out of 1817researchers) at the two main research conferences in Cryptology. He is arecipient of the Society of Worldwide Inter-bank Funds Transfer (SWIFT) award. (Visit: www.cerias.purude.edu)