<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"><FONT face=Calibri>TITLE: Stream Cipher Cryptology for Secure Cloud Computing<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><FONT face=Calibri>4/30, 10am, N355</FONT></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><FONT face=Calibri>Professor- Emeritus N Rao Thammavaram, ACM fellow/IEEE fellow</FONT></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><FONT face=Calibri>University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA</FONT></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><FONT face=Calibri>Host: Zhu Han</FONT></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Abstract: </FONT></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>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."<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The cryptological strength of these ciphers in terms of randomness parameters, linear consistency and entropy of the key streams are presented.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then we introduce the subject of Cloud Computing Technology as a computational and remote data storage utility.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The stream ciphers with much higher speed and efficiency over block ciphers make them very important for cloud computing and the design of TPAs.</FONT></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Bio: </FONT></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Dr. Rao received his D.I.I. Sc. from <SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri">Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, l955.</SPAN> He received his M.S.E. and Ph.D. from <SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri">Engineering, The Un</SPAN>iversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1961 and 1964, respectively. Dr. Rao is ACM fellow and IEEE fellow. Dr. Rao was <SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri">Z.L. Loflin Chair Professor of Computer Science and Director of CRYPTO Laboratory (l987-2006), The Center for<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA. Presently<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Professor-Emeritus 2006- Present.</SPAN> He was <SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri">Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (l975-80), Southern M</SPAN>ethodist University, Dallas, TX, and he was <SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri">Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (l967-75),<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>University of Maryland, College Park, MD.</SPAN> Dr. Rao has s<SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri">upervised 21 Ph. D. dissertations and 7 Post-docs.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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