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Towards post-quantum cryptography: complexity and protocols

 

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Thursday, March 10, 2022, 10:30am - 12:00pm
 

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Speaker: Katerina Sotiraki

Bio

Katerina Sotiraki is currently a post-doctoral researcher
at the EECS Department of UC Berkeley working with Alessandro Chiesa
and Raluca Ada Popa. She received her PhD from the EECS Department at
MIT where she was advised by Vinod Vaikuntanathan. She works on
cryptography, complexity theory, and secure computation, with focus on
cryptography based on lattices.

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Event Type: Faculty Candidate Talk

Abstract: The advent of quantum computers places many widely usedcryptographic protocols at risk. In response to this threat, thefield of post-quantum cryptography has emerged. The most broadlyrecognized post-quantum protocols are related to lattices. Beyondtheir resistance to quantum attacks, lattices are instrumental toolsin cryptography due to their rich mathematical structure. In thistalk, I will present my work on understanding the complexity oflattice problems and on constructing lattice-based cryptographicprotocols useful in practical scenarios. First, I will present anoptimal construction for worst-case collision-resistant hash functionsbased on a lattice problem. Second, I will show the firstlattice-based construction of cryptographic proofs with minimalcommunication and zero-knowledge for any language in NP.

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