Honors Oral Exam

Elliptic Curves Cryptography

Shir Maimon

Tuesday, May 8th, 2018
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Hylan 1104

We give an introduction to elliptic curves in order to introduce the elliptic curves Diffie-Helman protocol and give motivation for its use as a cryptographic key exchange. We will touch on the quantum attack that breaks elliptic curves Diffie-Helman as well.

Event contact: hazel dot mcknight at rochester dot edu