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Creating unbreakable codes
Unbreakable codes were the topic of the one-day workshop
in Cryptography and Combinatorics held by the Department of Mathematical
Sciences at the University in July.
The day was attended by members of the Information Security Group from
Royal Holloway, University of London, as well as members of the
Departments of Mathematical Sciences and Electronic Systems Engineering at
Essex.
The event focused on ongoing research at Essex into new systems and
designs for ultra-secure codes. These 'unbreakable codes' are more
advanced than currently used codes as they are being specially designed to
not be susceptible to brute force attacks.
The workshop was organised by Professor Peter Higgins, Dr Chris Saker
and Dr Alexei Vernitski. Speakers included Professor Fred Piper, the head
of Royal Holloway's Information Security Group. Members of the Department
are planning future work with Professor Piper on creating unbreakable
codes.
The organisers would like to thank the British Combinatorial Committee
who provided funding for this event.
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