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Constructions of primitives & protocols
- block ciphers use combinatorial designs
- stream ciphers built from sequences
- public key ciphers use various computational problems
- efficient algorithms
Cryptanalysis
- factoring, discrete logarithms
- linear approximations
- statistical estimators
Kevin McCurley
1/23/1998