Using QED to crypt-analyze Hash Functions
Ayush Sharma (cosec - b-it)
Wednesday 13 January 2010, 13.00, b-it 1.25 (cosec meeting room)
My talk would cover a brief, and extremely abstract introduction of QED and its major concepts, and how they can be utilized for the purpose of cryptanalysis of Hash Functions. I will try and draw parallels between the behavior of sub-atomic particles, and bits; and how theories of QED help provide the inspiration to come up with new strategies of Hash Function Cryptanalysis. Finally, I will provide concrete examples of how QED theories help understand (and modify/improve) existing attacks, and that a deeper study in the topic may provide additional, revolutionary techniques to break existing, unbroken hash functions.