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Information Security | 25 October | From Hardware to Applications

Adi Shamir, The Weizmann Institute, Israel

Abstract
RFID tags require cryptographic authentication protocols with low footprint, low power consumption, reasonable speed and good security. These protocols rely on cryptographic hash functions. In this talk we will present a new extremely low footprint hash function called SQUASH (SQUAre haSH) with provable security properties. It can be shown that SQUASH is as secure as the Rabin function.

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Adi Shamir is a professor at the Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department of the Werizmann Institute of Science. He is the inventor or co-inventor of numerous cryptographic schemes including RSA, secret sharing, visual cryptography, identity-based schemes and zero knowledge identification and signature schemes. In addition, he participated in the development of many cryptanalytic approaches, including differential cryptanalysis, differential fault attacks, lattice attacks and algebraic attacks.