Introduction to Cryptography with Application to Telecommunications and Signal Processing

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• Dr Nikolaos Doukas, Assistant Professor of Information Technology in the Hellenic Army Academy
• Thursday 09 November 2017, 14:00-15:40
• Room 403b, Level 4, EEE Department.

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The tutorial will consist of two parts with a ten minute break in between.

Part A: Fundamentals of Cryptography (14:00 – 14:45)

• Cryptographic Requirements
• Symmetric encryption
• Public key encryption
• Block and Stream cryptography
• Digital signatures
• Key management and distribution
• Cryptographic design for Telecommunications and Signal Processing problems

Part B: Research topics in Cryptography for Military Applications (14:55 – 15:40)

• Symmetric Block cipher algorithm design
• Symmetric Stream cipher design
• Defense against Differential Power Analysis Attacks on AES
• Zero Knowledge authentication

Biography: Nikolaos Doukas, received his BEng (1st class honors), MSc and PhD Degrees from Imperial College, London in 1992, 1993 and 1998 respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Information Technology in the Hellenic Army Academy. His past teaching positions were at the Athens University for Economics and Business, the Hellenic Air Force Academy, the Hellenic Army Academy and the University of the Peloponnese, at both undergraduate and graduate level. His research interests include Cryptography, Data Security, Software Engineering, Multimedia Systems, Decision Support Systems, Data Mining, Speech processing, Ultrasonic Signal and Image Processing, Optimization and e-Learning systems. He has participated in research and development projects supported by the European commission, the UK Ministry of Defence, LG Semiconductors, the Cypriot Government, the Greek Government, Thales Airborne Systems (Thomson CSF – Detexis) and other organisations, while he has also been contributing for over 15 years in the development of commercially available CAD software for architectural design and static analysis of buildings. He has published in over 20 peer-reviewed journals and conferences while he is also co-inventor in a European Patent in 2011, in the field of secure speech communications.

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