The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a $442,887 Project Grant to Cornell University to conduct collaborative research on the theoretical foundations of lattice-based cryptography. This four-year award, effective October 1, 2023, supports three primary research goals: 1) Analyzing the fine-grained complexity of lattice problems to better understand the practical security of lattice-based cryptosystems; 2) Studying connections between lattices and...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, with CFDA number 47.049, provides $242,337 to The University of Iowa to conduct collaborative research on using recent advances in mathematics to improve lattice-based cryptography. The key goals of the project are to develop more efficient constructions of lattices with both addition and multiplication operations, create faster algorithms for operating on these lattices, and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $349,203 to Carnegie Mellon University to conduct research on cryptography and encrypted computation. The project aims to explore new sources of computational hardness, including code-based and multivariate cryptography, as well as point lattice assumptions, to enable more efficient cryptographic mechanisms such as multi-party computation...
This $219,148 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) supports Clemson University's research on lattice reduction in cryptography and number theory. The key objectives are to: Develop a new algorithm for finding short vectors in ideal lattices, which are critical to the security of many post-quantum cryptographic systems. This algorithm will generalize a recently introduced complex continued fraction method to work over arbitrary...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) provides $600,000 in funding to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) for a collaborative research project titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FRGMS: SMALL ROOT DISCRIMINANTS IN NUMBER THEORY AND CRYPTOGRAPHY". The project aims to leverage recent mathematical advances to improve lattice-based cryptography, which is essential for secure digital...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of South Florida (USF) to conduct research on the development of new cryptographic primitives for post-quantum cryptography. The project aims to construct novel cryptographic schemes based on rank metric codes derived from Drinfeld modules, as well as explore new variants of the Hamming metric for code-based cryptography. This research...
This $193,399 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program will fund research at New York University (NYU) to strengthen the foundations of computational intractability needed for robust cryptography. The primary goal is to explore novel resource-constrained adversarial models to improve cryptographic security and foundations, including aims to achieve improved cryptographic hardness amplification and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Office of Research Administration. The grant, awarded on July 1, 2024, will fund a research project to investigate post-quantum multivariate cryptography and develop novel quantum algorithms and public-key cryptosystems resistant to quantum computing capabilities. Key objectives...
This $1.2 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund research at the University of Washington from June 2022 through May 2026 to advance theoretical foundations of block ciphers. The research aims to narrow the gap between provable security and cryptanalysis by developing security proofs against limited classes of statistical and algebraic attacks. It will also study important but under-researched components...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded a $389,661 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin from September 1, 2021 to December 31, 2022. The grant supports research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which aims to advance computing, communications, and information science through investigator-initiated research and development of cyberinfrastructure. Specifically, the University of...