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Questions about the construction and analysis of protocols and algorithms for secure computation and communication (including authentication, integrity, and privacy aspects).

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Meaning of: "'If factoring large integers is hard, then breaking RSA is hard,' is unproven"

The easiest way to think about it is to think of the contrapositive. The statement: if factoring large integers is hard, then breaking RSA is hard is equivalent to the following: if breaki …
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If P=NP, are there cryptosystems that would require n^2 time to break?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad A One Time Pad is secure regardless of complexity, as long as your numbers are truly random. Even if you can try every key quickly, it's useless because …
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What mathematics can be interesting for these CS areas?

As for cryptography, if you've got number theory, the only real thing I can think of to extend this is group/field theory. …
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