Miklos Santha | STIAS: The Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study

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Projects

The nature of randomness and fundamental physical limits of secrecy
People have always been fascinated by randomness and intrigued by the fundamental question – is any outcome that appears random to us only so by virtue of our ignorance, or do there exist experiments whose outcome is inherently unpredictable to any observers, no matter how powerful or omniscient they might be?
Cryptography in the Quantum Age
Even though we have some basic understanding of the power of quantum computation, and its impact on cryptography and cryptanalysis, there are many open problems, some of them purely technical and some more fundamental.