Number Theory and Cryptography

Published to honor the work of cryptographer and number theorist Johannes Buchmann, this festschrift celebrates his 60 th birthday and platforms a wide variety of contributions that cover the full spectrum of his astonishing variety of research interests.

Johannes Buchmann is internationally recognized as one of the leading figures in areas of computational number theory, cryptography and information security. He has published numerous scientific papers and books spanning a very wide spectrum of interests; besides R&D he also fulfilled lots of administrative tasks for instance building up and directing his research group CDC at Darmstadt, but he also served as the Dean of the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt and then went on to become Vice President of the university for six years (2001-2007). This festschrift, published in honor of Johannes Buchmann on the occasion of his 60th birthday, contains contributions by some of his colleagues, former students and friends. The papers give an overview of Johannes Buchmann's research interests, ranging from computational number theory and the hardness of cryptographic assumptions to more application-oriented topics such as privacy and hardware security. With this book we celebrate Johannes Buchmann's vision and achievements.

Builder and director of the research group CDC Leading figure in computational number theory, cryptography and information security Numerous scientific publications covering a very wide spectrum of interests

Autorentext
Prof. Dr. techn. Stefan Katzenbeisser, Dipl. Informatiker, Diplom an der TU Wien (2001), Promotion an der TU München (2005), Senior Scientist, Philips Research Europe, Information and System Security Group (2005-2007), Juniorprofessor für Security Engineering (2007 - 2011), seit 2011 Universitätsprofessor für Security Engineering der TU Darmstadt, Forschungsschwerpunkte in Cryptographic protocols (design, analysis), Cryptographic techniques for noisy and fuzzy data, Privacy Enhancing, Technologies, Software Security, Watermarking, Digital Rights Management, Copyright Protection, Malicious Code Detection.

Klappentext
This festschrift, published in honor of Johannes Buchmann on the occasion of his 60th birthday, contains contributions by some of his colleagues, former students, and friends. The papers give an overview of Johannes Buchmann's research interests, ranging from computational number theory and the hardness of cryptographic assumptions to more application-oriented topics such as privacy and hardware security. With this book we celebrate Johannes Buchmann's vision and achievements.

Inhalt

Personal Tributes.- Computational Number Theory.- Hardness of Cryptographic Assumptions.- Hardware Security.- Privacy and Security.- Application Security.