Kenny Paterson (University of London): Cryptography from Pairings

In this talk, we will give an overview of pairing-based cryptography, a relatively new area of cryptographic research that has undergone rapid development over the last five years. Pairings on elliptic curves are maps with very nice algebraic properties that can be exploited to produce interesting and efficient cryptographic primitives. We will focus on explaining how pairings have been used in constructing identity-based encryption schemes, short signature schemes, and non-interactive key agreement schemes, whilst providing pointers to their many other applications in cryptography.