The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $244,096 Project Grant through its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to develop the foundations of unclonable cryptography. The project aims to:
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Propose and study novel encryption schemes and digital signatures with robust protections for secret keys, using quantum states as a witness encryption procedure.
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Develop new cryptographic methods to protect against unauthorized software distribution, leveraging properties of pseudorandom functions and public verification.
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Establish new frameworks, proof techniques, and black-box separations to deepen the theoretical understanding of unclonable cryptography, drawing conceptual parallels with indistinguishability obfuscation.
The project is accompanied by a comprehensive education plan to engage undergraduate students in this research through course development, colloquia, and targeted recruitment initiatives. Work will be performed at UCSB's facilities in Santa Barbara, CA.
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