| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/N63116/01 |
| Title: |
INVESTIGATION INTO CRYPTOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS BASED ON ALGEBRAIC CURVES |
| Principal Investigator: |
Smart, Professor N |
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| Department: |
Computer Science |
| Organisation: |
University of Bristol |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
19 February 2001 |
Ends: |
18 August 2004 |
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201,808
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| Networks & Distributed Systems |
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Creative Industries |
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Elliptic curve cryptography is a technology which enables trust in the emerging world of e-commerce and mobile communications. This technology gives the highest strength per bit of any public key cryptographic technique, whilst at the same time providing improved speed, reduced memory requirements and smaller bandwidth. There is a generalisation of elliptic curve cryptography, called hyperelliptic cryptography, which could have some advantages as the world moves to pervasive 64-bit computing. The project aims to investigate the security of both elliptic and hyperelliptic cryptosystems using the new techniques of Weil descent created by the PI. Attention will be focused on not only breaking and creating such systems but also on their implementations details, with a view to creating faster implementations. This will be done within the context of an industrial shift from 32-bit to 64-bit processors and a shift from RISC and CISC architectures to RPIC based systems.
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http://www.bris.ac.uk |