Yvo G. Desmedt
Chair of Information Communication Technology
Department of Computer Science,
University College London, UK
Research Interests
His main interests include cryptography, network security, critical
infrastructure and computer security.
Current research:
- Anonymity and E-voting
- Cryptanalysis
- Hybrid Encryption
- Key Distribution
- Post-Quantum Cryptography
- Reliable and Perfectly Secure Message Transmission
- Secret Sharing
- Secure Multiparty Computation
- Stream Authentication
- editor in Chief IET Information Security Journal
- editor of:
- the Journal of Computer Security,
- Information Processing Letters,
- Advances in Mathematics of Communications
- Chair of the Steering Committee of:
- International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security
- International Conference on Information Theoretic Security
- Member of the Steering Committee of the
International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography
(PKC)
Other biographic information
Yvo Desmedt received his Ph.D. (Summa cum Laude) from the University of
Leuven, Belgium (1984). He is also a courtesy professor at Florida
State University. He was program chair of ICITS 2007, co-program chair of
CANS 2005, program chair of PKC 2003, the 2002 ACM Workshop on Scientific
Aspects of Cyber Terrorism and Crypto '94. He has given invited lectures at
several conferences and workshop in 5 different continents.
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