You can find information about CT-RSA 2009 by following the link. The submission deadline has been extended to October 21st!

Welcome! This is the homepage of the Emmy Noether Research Group Minimizing Cryptographic Assumptions (MiniCrypt) The group has been established at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, in February 2006. It is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Emmy Noether Research Group

The goal of the research project "Minimizing Cryptographic Assumptions" is to determine the mildest assumptions required for the provably secure construction of selected cryptographic protocols. Complex protocols are typically built from simpler primitives such as the RSA function or general one-way functions. Determining the weakest yet sufficient primitives for a protocol is an important task from a security viewpoint. Especially with the emerging area of quantum computers, which would render some of today's most popular problems like RSA insecure, and the recent alarming attacks on well-known cryptographic hash functions, the search for alternative constructions based on more general primitives and weaker assumptions becomes increasingly important.

author: Marc Fischlin
creation date: Fri Oct 10 12:56:34 2008
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