Master of Mathematics in Computer Science - Cryptography, Security, and Privacy

University of Waterloo

The Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) research group carries out research in a wide variety of topics, from designing cryptographic protocols to the evaluation of their effectiveness and usability in deployed systems. Some examples are:(Distributed) cryptographic protocols. Designing interactive protocols to enable secure communication, such as key agreement protocols, key distribution schemes, secret sharing schemes, identification schemes, broadcast encryption and oblivious transfer. Efficient cryptographic algorithms and their implementation. Designing and analyzing cryptographic primitives such as block and stream ciphers, public-key encryption schemes, signature schemes, message authentication codes, key establishment protocols, and pairing-based cryptography.Cryptographic hash functions. Analyzing the security of iterated design techniques and the random oracle model and constructing families of universal hash functions. Privacy-preserving communications networks. Creating privacy-preserving communications networks with better security, privacy, efficiency, and scalability properties than existing ones.