wSTC

Workshop on Selected Topics in Cryptography

Spring 2025

S25Program

Program (UK time - GMT+01:00)

May 30, 2025

  9:00 –   9:20   Welcome
  9:20 – 10:00   Olimpia Țicloș (IMAR, RO & SCCS, UK), Ioana Boureanu and Cătălin Drăgan (SCCS, University of Surrey, UK)
Bridging the Gap: From ISD to ISIS through Generalised Inverses
10:00 – 10:40   Patricia Safriuc (UAIC, RO)
Permutation-based Optimization in GI Decoding
10:40 – 11:00   Coffee break
11:00 – 11:40   Nada El Kassem (SCCS, University of Surrey, UK) 
— Post-Quantum Direct Anonymous Attestation (PQ-DAA)
11:40 – 12:20   Callum London (SCCS, University of Surrey, UK) 
— Lattice based Isomorphism problem and applications
12:20 – 14:20   Lunch break
14:20 – 15:00   Victor Talif (IMAR, RO)
— Graded Encoding Systems: A summary of implementations and attacks
15:00 – 15:40   Alexandru-Valentin Bașagă and
Sorin Iftene, (UAIC, RO)
Ideal Compartmented Secret Sharing Scheme Based on the Chinese Remainder Theorem for Polynomial Rings
15:40 – 16:00   Coffee break
16:00 – 16:40   Oana Tătaru (UAIC, RO)
NP-Completeness of SVP for Binary Lattices
16:40 – 17:00    Discussions

May 31, 2025

  9:20 – 10:00   Long Meng (SCCS, University of Surrey, UK) 
— FEASE: Fast and Expressive Asymmetric Searchable Encryption
10:00 – 10:40   Yalan Wang (SCCS, University of Surrey, UK)
Anonymous signature from hash functions
10:40 – 11:00   Coffee break
11:00 – 11:40   Anca-Maria Nica (UAIC, RO)
Authentication in IoT
11:40 – 12:20   Manuela Horduna (IMAR, RO)
Shaping Privacy Models in Searchable Encryption
12:20 – 14:20   Lunch break
14:20 – 15:00   Maria Coteanu (Bitdefender, RO)
On Strong Privacy in Vaudenay’s RFID Model
15:00 – 15:40   Ferucio Laurențiu Țiplea (UAIC, RO)
Weak, Weak-insider, and Randomized Weak Privacy in the HPVP model
for RFID
15:40 – 16:00   Coffee break
16:00 – 16:40   Paul Cotan (IMAR, RO)
Algorithms for Rational Conics on Finite Fields
16:40 – 17:20   George Teșeleanu (ATI, RO)
A Generalized Wiener-type Attack Against an RSA-like Cryptosystem
17:20 – 18:00   Discussions