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Theoretically-Sound Real-World Cryptography

Project description

The next-generation cryptosystems

With so much data in a modern interconnected world, and new technologies such as cloud computing and the Internet of Things, the demand for cryptosystems is rapidly growing. Nowadays, there is a need to evolve current techniques that enable the design and rigorous analysis of cryptosystems in theoretical security models. The transformation will be from idealised theoretical settings to the demands of real-world applications. In this context, the EU-funded REWOCRYPT project will establish a foundation for the design and mathematically rigorous security analysis of the next generation of cryptosystems, with the aim of meeting real-world security requirements. The methods developed can also be used to realise secure communication in trustworthy services and products.

Objective

Novel technologies like Cloud Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, Big Data, Industry 4.0 and the Internet
of Things do not only come with a huge demand for practical and efficient cryptosystems, but also with many novel attack surfaces. The security properties required from cryptographic building blocks for these innovative applications go beyond classical security goals.

Modern theoretical cryptography has very successfully developed powerful techniques that enable the design and rigorous formal analysis of cryptosystems in theoretical security models. Now that these techniques are readily available, we have to take the next important step: the evolution of these techniques from idealized theoretical settings to the demands of real-world applications.

The REWOCRYPT project will tackle this main research challenge at the intersection of theoretical and real-world cryptography. It will provide a solid foundation for the design and mathematically rigorous security analysis of the next generation of cryptosystems that provably meet real-world security requirements and can safely be used to realize secure communication in trustworthy services and products for a modern interconnected society.

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Host institution

BERGISCHE UNIVERSITAET WUPPERTAL
Net EU contribution

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€ 1 410 788,00
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GAUSS-STRASSE 20
42119 Wuppertal
Germany

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Region
Nordrhein-Westfalen Düsseldorf Wuppertal, Kreisfreie Stadt
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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€ 1 410 788,00

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