ERC Advanced Grant · 2021
New Foundations for Real-World Cryptography
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…
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