Advanced Techniques of Cryptology, Image Processing and Computational Topology for Information Security

The project is dedicated to research activates on advanced techniques for information security regarding data secrecy and authentication control. Accordingly, the main goals of the project are at the following directions:(i) techniques for security evaluation of certain symmetric encryption techniques and authentication protocols;(ii) advanced stream ciphers and authentication protocols which provide high security and low implementation complexity;(iii) advanced techniques for the key management (including the broadcast encryption ones); (iv) advanced techniques for biometric authentication; (v) application of the results achieved within (i)-(iv) for developing advanced mechanisms of information security in certain ICT systems including ones related to elements of medical ICT and smart grid. The main expected outcomes of the project are within domains of cryptology, image processing and computational topology and include the following: - Design and security evaluation of advanced cryptographic techniques based on joint effects of pseudo-randomness, randomness and dedicated coding; - Improvement of existing and development of new methods for shape characterization at sub-pixel precision and further enhance their applicability and particularly regarding processing of 3D images and the biometric; - Employment of computational topology methods for cryptographic keys management issues involving advanced method of partitioning and covering of topological and discrete structures.