Descripción del proyecto
Criptografía: nivelar la teoría con la práctica
Hasta la fecha, existe una gran discrepancia entre el aspecto teórico y el aspecto práctico de la criptografía. El equipo del proyecto REWORC, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende disminuir esta brecha. Para lograrlo, sentará las bases teóricas de la criptografía del mundo real y desarrollará nuevas herramientas y nuevos modelos para el diseño y el análisis de la criptografía práctica en el entorno poscuántico, entre otras cosas. La labor realizada en el marco del proyecto tendrá una repercusión a largo plazo en el diseño de protocolos teóricos, influirá en los esfuerzos de normalización en curso en la criptografía poscuántica y resolverá dudas sobre la seguridad de la criptografía importante utilizada en la práctica.
Objetivo
Almost half a century after the invention of public-key cryptography, there is still a vast discrepancy between
the theory and practice of cryptography. With some notable exceptions, research from the cryptographic theory
community focuses on problems of great theoretical interest, albeit completely disconnected from the real world. On the other hand, widely used real-world cryptographic protocols are being neglected because they are either mathematically ugly, their solutions appear uninteresting, or they simply do not cross the mind of theoreticians. The current state can be summarized as follows:
• Several well-established theoretical cryptographic concepts fall short from properly modeling the way practitioners think about real-world cryptography
• There exists a surprisingly large amount of modern cryptographic primitives and standards with unclear provable security status.
The central objective of the REWORC project is thus to narrow the gap between theory and practice of cryptography, providing a solid theoretical groundwork for real-world cryptography. To this end, we will
• lay a new theoretical foundation for real-world cryptography in the elliptic curve setting
• develop new tools and models for the design and analysis of practical cryptography in the post-quantum setting
• revisit the concrete security of legacy cryptography from the 2000s, recently established standards, and forthcoming standards.
REWORC will have a substantial long-term impact on theoretical protocol design, influence ongoing standardization
efforts in post-quantum cryptography, and settle doubts about the security of important cryptography
used in practice.
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedInstitución de acogida
44801 Bochum
Alemania