| Time+Place: | Thursday 29/03/2007 14:30 Room 337-8 Taub Bld. | ||||
| Title: | Playing "Hide-and-Seek" in Finite Fields: Hidden Number Problem and Its Applications | ||||
| Speaker: | Igor Shparlinski
http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/~igor
| Affiliation: | Macquarie University
| Host: | Michael Kaminski
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A survey will be given of recent results on the hidden number problem introduced by Boneh and Venkatesan in 1996 and its numerous generalizations. We also describe several cryptographic and computer science applications and outline some possible directions for further research.