[CCoE Notice] 4/30, 10am, N355, Stream Cipher Cryptology for Secure Cloud Computing

[Zhu Han]

TITLE: Stream Cipher Cryptology for Secure Cloud Computing
4/30, 10am, N355
Professor- Emeritus N Rao Thammavaram, ACM fellow/IEEE fellow
University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA
Host: Zhu Han
 
Abstract: 
In this talk, we start with an introduction to the fundamentals of block cipher and stream cipher cryptography and then proceed in some detail the subject of "Large-prime Stream Cipher Cryptology."  The cryptological strength of these ciphers in terms of randomness parameters, linear consistency and entropy of the key streams are presented.  Then we introduce the subject of Cloud Computing Technology as a computational and remote data storage utility.  We consider here a facility, often called, Third Party Auditor (TPA), as an important part of cloud infrastructure that provides data security and economics of scale to the cloud clientele.  The stream ciphers with much higher speed and efficiency over block ciphers make them very important for cloud computing and the design of TPAs.
Bio: 
Dr. Rao received his D.I.I. Sc. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, l955. He received his M.S.E. and Ph.D. from Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1961 and 1964, respectively. Dr. Rao is ACM fellow and IEEE fellow. Dr. Rao was Z.L. Loflin Chair Professor of Computer Science and Director of CRYPTO Laboratory (l987-2006), The Center for  Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA. Presently  Professor-Emeritus 2006- Present. He was Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (l975-80), Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, and he was Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (l967-75),  University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Dr. Rao has supervised 21 Ph. D. dissertations and 7 Post-docs.
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