Title: Department of Computer Science Seminar
Date: Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2000
Time: 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Venue: Room N101, CSIT Building [108]
Speaker: Dr Giuseppe Jurman (Centre for Mathematics and its
Applications, Australian National University)
Description: "From Menet Khufu to quanta through Rijndael: a short trip into fubswrorjb"


                        Abstract

People's need to communicate secretly probably began with the discovery of
writing: the earliest recorded example was carved over 4000 years ago in
the tomb of an Egyptian nobleman. It is only in the last 300 years that
the arts of encrypting document - cryptography - and decipher secret
writings - cryptanalysis - have become more scientific. Now technology
provides powerful tools to use the mathematical background more
effectively.  The talk will first show some of the classical private-key
enciphering methods and then it will move on the more recent public-key
algorithms, with a particular look at the mathematics involved. After a
brief survey on the cryptanalytic side, the framework of the actual
standard algorithms will be discussed and we will conclude with a quick
glance towards the future.

URL: http://cs.anu.edu.au/lib/seminars/seminars00/dept20001101

 

BIO: I was born in Trento (Italy) in 1970. I got my degree ("Laurea") 
in Mathematics at the University of Trento in
1993 with a thesis in Algebraic Geometry. In 1998 I received PhD in the
same University with a thesis on Lie Algebras. In February 2000 I joined
CMA-SMS here at ANU for a 2 year position as a PostDoc Fellow. My main
interest has been theory of modular Lie algebras and related topics, 
and now I've jsut started studying cryptography.