Cryptology at Boise State University
Members of the Cryptology group are from the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering and from the Department of Mathematics in the College of Arts and Science. The group members are:
Liljana Babinkostova, Jens Harlander, Uwe Kaiser, Marion Scheepers, and Jyh-haw Yeh.
Seminar:
The Cryptology seminar meets every week to discuss our ongoing research and the research of others in our field. Students are welcome to attend.
Spring 2009 Schedule
Fall 2009 Schedule
BoiseCrypt Conference:
BoiseCrypt is a conference at which graduate students present the results of their graduate cryptology projects.
The Spring 2009 meeting of the Boise Graduate Cryptology Conference occured on May 14, 2009.
The Fall 2009 meeting will take place during December 16 through 18.
Courses:
The Department of Mathematics offers a master's degree in mathematics. More information can be found at this link. Cryptology and related courses available through this program include:
- MATH 305: Abstract Algebra 1
- MATH 306: Number Theory
- MATH 307/ COMPSCI 367/ COMPSCI 567: Cryptology 1
- MATH 308/ COMPSCI 368/ COMPSCI 568: Cryptology 2
- MATH 509: Symmetric Key Cryptology
- MATH 584: Topics in Computational Algebra
- MATH 585: Topics in Cryptology
- COMPSCI 546: Computer Security
MATH 509 will be offered in Spring 2010 by Dr. Liljana Babinkostova.
Graduate Students:
| Student |
Master's Thesis/Project Title |
Year defended |
Advisor |
|
Wei Zhang |
Development, Implementation and Simulation of a Source Policy Route Discovery Protocol |
Summer 2003 |
Jyh-haw Yeh |
Neeraja Julakanti |
A Chosen Ciphertext attack |
Summer 2005 |
Marion Scheepers |
|
Sean Ma |
Enforcing Non-Hierarchical Access Control Policy Without Public Key Cryptography |
Fall 2005 |
Jyh-haw Yeh |
|
Dusty Hinkel |
An investigation of Lucas sequences |
Spring 2007 |
Marion Scheepers |
|
Rajasree Nataraja |
Time-bound Hierarchical Access Control |
Spring 2009 |
Jyh-haw Yeh |
|
Kamatam Sowjanya |
A Bit-wise Randomness Study of MD5 |
Spring 2009 |
Jyh-haw Yeh |
|
Jason Smith |
Solvability characterizations of Pell-like equations |
Spring 2009 |
Marion Scheepers |
Our Individual Cryptology Interests:
Liljana Babinkostova's cryptology research interests include group based cryptosystems and protocols. Currently she is interested in cryptosystems based on braid groups.
Uwe Kaiser's cryptology research interests are in algebraic crypto systems and relations with geometry and topology.
Jens Harlander's cryptology research interests include algorithmic decidability and complexity of questions arising in discrete group theory and topology.
Jyh-haw Yeh's cryptology research areas are randomness study of cryptographic algorithms using innovatory neural network approach. This methodology can be extended to test the randomness of more general Random Number Generator. Currently, he is also interested in cryptographic solutions for controlling access in multi-level security system.
Marion Scheepers's research interests in cryptology include mathematical modelling and analysis of security threats against practical information security systems.
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