Seminars will be held in the Lecture Theatre 1 - William Gates Building, Computer Laboratory at 4.15pm

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Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Nigel Smart

University of Bristol

I will discuss elliptic curve cryptography and how it is used in a traditional public key setting. I will go on to explain some of the attacks against such systems and then show how the existance of such attacks can be used to develop new identity based encryption and signature protocols.