From dawagner@roof.princeton.edu Mon Sep 5 22:59:26 EDT 1994 Article: 28554 of sci.crypt Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: princeton!roof.princeton.edu!dawagner From: dawagner@roof.princeton.edu (David A. Wagner) Subject: PhD CS programs with crypto Message-ID: <1994Sep6.025652.848@Princeton.EDU> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: roof.princeton.edu Organization: Princeton University Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 02:56:52 GMT Lines: 214 Several weeks ago I posted a plea for information about PhD programs in computer science which had a strong showing in cryptography. This is the long-overdue summary. I've collected all the information I got from the net and from my various other inquiries into a table; in no particular order: School App. Deadline Professors of interest MIT Jan 15 Rivest, Micali, Goldwasser Carnegie Mellon Jan 15 Rudich, Furst (sorta), Blum (maybe?) Cambridge ? Anderson, Needham, Wheeler, Roe, Lomas U. Washington Jan 10 Tompa (sorta), Koeblitz (?) U. Wisconsin Dec 20 Bach Stanford Jan 1 Hellman (but see note below) Berkeley Dec 15 Blum U. Texas Jan 2 Lam Rice ? Krentel (sorta) U. Georgia ? Pomerance Note: in email, Prof. Hellman mentioned that he will not be be advising any new students, but he does offer a seminar in crypto each year. Disclaimer! Some of those professors may not be not even be interested in crypto -- if I've included too much for your taste, I apologize. The list is probably way too incomplete -- if I've included too little, I'm sorry. I'm going by my cryptic notes: so take it all with a grain of salt. :-) I'd love to hear from anyone who has anything to add to my list :-) A huge thank you to all who've helped with this information! Here's a copy of the replies I got by email: >From Ross.Anderson@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jul 31 15:07:03 1994 Received: from swan.cl.cam.ac.uk by ponyexpress.princeton.edu (5.65c/1.113/newPE) id AA06181; Sun, 31 Jul 1994 09:07:29 -0400 Received: from nene.cl.cam.ac.uk (user rja14 (rfc931)) by swan.cl.cam.ac.uk with SMTP (PP-6.5) to cl; Sun, 31 Jul 1994 14:07:17 +0100 Received: by nene.cl.cam.ac.uk (5.65/SMI-3.0DEV3) id AA25663; Sun, 31 Jul 1994 14:07:03 +0100 Date: Sun, 31 Jul 1994 14:07:03 +0100 From: Ross.Anderson@cl.cam.ac.uk Message-Id: <9407311307.AA25663@nene.cl.cam.ac.uk> To: dawagner@phoenix (David A. Wagner) Subject: Re: Grad schools and cryptography Status: RO In article <1994Jul30.175722.10358@Princeton.EDU>, you write: > I'm looking around at different computer science PhD programs, > and I was wondering if anyone could tell me which universities > have a strong showing in cryptography. If you're not determined to stay in the USA, then we have one of the strongest computer security teams here at Cambridge in England. Our theme, insofar as we have one, is the performance and reliability of computer and communications security systems. The head of department is Roger Needham, who is known for coinventing one-way password encryption, the CAP capability machine, the Needham-Schroder protocol and the Burrows-Abadi-Needham logic; David Wheeler works on fast encryption algorithms (on which we had an international conference in December); I work on algorithms and on the robustness of payment systems (and edit `Security Reviews'); Mike Roe works on security standards; and Mark Lomas is working on trusted third parties. There are also a couple of just-started PhD students, and we should be hiring two postdocs next year. We are not as strong on the zero-knowledge-complexity side of things as the US universities are (to do that you should go to MIT), but if your interests are at all practical then we might be worth a look. We are likely to be doing a fair amount on protocols, especially for gigabit networks, although we have accommodated many other interests in the past, Regards Ross Anderson >From fnord@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca Sun Jul 31 15:49:42 1994 Received: from binkley.CS.McGill.CA by ponyexpress.princeton.edu (5.65c/1.113/newPE) id AA26395; Sun, 31 Jul 1994 19:49:48 -0400 Received: by binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (5.65a/IDA-1.4.2c/SOCS-2f) id AA29464 (mail destined for dawagner@flagstaff.Princeton.EDU) on Sun, 31 Jul 94 19:49:42 -0400 Date: Sun, 31 Jul 94 19:49:42 -0400 From: Andrew KUCHLING Message-Id: <9407312349.AA29464@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca> To: dawagner@phoenix Subject: Re: Grad schools and cryptography Newsgroups: sci.crypt In-Reply-To: <1994Jul30.175722.10358@Princeton.EDU> Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Cc: Status: RO I'm also looking into good grad schools; please post a summary (or e-mail me a copy) of any information you get. I do know that the top cryptographer in Canada is Gilles Brassard at l'Universite de Montreal, and there's also Selim Akl at Queen's University. I don't know precisely what they specialize in; I know that Brassard is mentioned in D. Denning's book for showing that certain cryptosystems _cannot_ be proved to be strong (in a certain sense) because such a proof could be transformed into a proof that NP=Co-NP. (Or something along those lines) So he may be fairly theoretical in orientation. Thanks in advance! Andrew Kuchling fnord@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca >From @pucc:irileyj@hook.wdgarl.wes.mot.com Mon Aug 1 11:28:41 1994 Received: from pucc.Princeton.EDU by ponyexpress.princeton.edu (5.65c/1.113/newPE) id AA22961; Mon, 1 Aug 1994 17:28:51 -0400 Received: from PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU by pucc.Princeton.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 0119; Mon, 01 Aug 94 17:28:45 EDT Received: from PUCC by PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (Mailer R2.10 ptf008) with BSMTP id 5517; Mon, 01 Aug 94 17:28:45 EDT Received: from PUCC by PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (Mailer R2.10 ptf008) with BSMTP id 5516; Mon, 01 Aug 94 17:28:44 EDT Received: from Princeton.EDU by pucc.Princeton.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Mon, 01 Aug 94 17:28:44 EDT Received: from motgate.mot.com by Princeton.EDU (5.65b/2.111/princeton) id AA04005; Mon, 1 Aug 94 17:28:47 -0400 Received: from pobox.mot.com ([129.188.137.100]) by motgate.mot.com with SMTP (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4/MOT-3.1 for ) id AA06383; Mon, 1 Aug 1994 16:28:46 -0500 Received: from hook.wdgarl.wes.mot.com by pobox.mot.com with SMTP (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4/MOT-3.1 for ) id AA05995; Mon, 1 Aug 1994 16:28:44 -0500 Received: from ananda.wdgarl.wes.mot.com by hook.wdgarl.wes.mot.com with SMTP (1.37.109.6/16.2) id AA21790; Mon, 1 Aug 94 16:28:42 -0500 Message-Id: <9408012128.AA21790@hook.wdgarl.wes.mot.com> Received: by ananda.wdgarl.wes.mot.com (1.37.109.6/16.2) id AA00878; Mon, 1 Aug 94 16:28:41 -0500 From: Riley Jackson Subject: Grad Schools To: dawagner@Princeton.EDU Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 16:28:41 CDT X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: RO Try U of Waterloo Scott A. Vanstone c/o Mobius Encryption Technologies @ (905) 506-4220 or (519) 888-4063 at the University ciao - riley >From ken@halcyon.com Mon Aug 1 08:18:50 1994 Received: from halcyon.com (halcyon.halcyon.com) by ponyexpress.princeton.edu (5.65c/1.113/newPE) id AA25493; Mon, 1 Aug 1994 18:18:51 -0400 Received: by halcyon.com id AA01566 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for dawagner@flagstaff.Princeton.EDU); Mon, 1 Aug 1994 15:18:50 -0700 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 15:18:50 -0700 From: Ken Pizzini Message-Id: <199408012218.AA01566@halcyon.com> To: dawagner@phoenix Subject: Re: Grad schools and cryptography Newsgroups: sci.crypt In-Reply-To: <1994Jul30.175722.10358@princeton.edu> Organization: . Cc: Status: RO In article <1994Jul30.175722.10358@princeton.edu> you write: >I'm looking around at different computer science PhD programs, >and I was wondering if anyone could tell me which universities >have a strong showing in cryptography. University of Washington (Seattle) has made a showing in the crypto literature... --Ken Pizzini >From sashew@unx.sas.com Tue Aug 2 12:42:12 1994 Received: from lamb.sas.com by ponyexpress.princeton.edu (5.65c/1.4/newPE) id AA28193; Tue, 9 Aug 1994 13:39:10 -0400 Received: from mozart by lamb.sas.com (5.65c/SAS/Gateway/10-28-91) id AA19076; Tue, 9 Aug 1994 13:39:07 -0400 Received: from crawdad.unx.sas.com by mozart (5.65c/SAS/Domains/5-6-90) id AA19919; Tue, 9 Aug 1994 13:33:36 -0400 Received: by crawdad.unx.sas.com (5.65c/SAS/Generic 9.01/3-26-93) id AA05774; Tue, 9 Aug 1994 13:33:35 -0400 To: dawagner@phoenix From: sashew@sas.com (Howard Willey) Subject: Re: Grad schools and cryptography Newsgroups: sci.crypt Date: Tue, 02 Aug 1994 16:42:12 -0400 Reply-To: sashew@sas.com Message-Id: References: <1994Jul30.175722.10358@Princeton.EDU> In-Reply-To: <1994Jul30.175722.10358@Princeton.EDU> Lines: 25 Status: RO In article <1994Jul30.175722.10358@Princeton.EDU>, you wrote: > I'm looking around at different computer science PhD programs, > and I was wondering if anyone could tell me which universities > have a strong showing in cryptography. > > Thanks for the info! I'll post a summary if anyone wants... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > David Wagner dawagner@princeton.edu The University of Southwestern Louisanna, in Lafayette La has a very good graduate computer science program, and a number of very good crypto people. End of summary. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Wagner dawagner@princeton.edu