The School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences congratulates the 2019 winners of the Nanyang Education Award and Nanyang Innovation & Entrepreneurship Award.
SPMS congratulates the 2019 Nanyang Award winners
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SHA-1 collision attacks are now actually practical and a looming danger
Hash functions play important roles in information security, serving as the basic building blocks for many security protocols. They must possess one vital feature: it has to be mathematically hard for an attacker to find two inputs that map to the same output (called a “collision”). Read more
NTU Professors Win International Cryptography Competition
The winners of CAESAR, a major international cryptography competition co-founded by the US National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), were announced on 20 February 2019. Of the six winning cryptography schemes, three were designed by researchers from Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore), led by Associate Professor Hongjun Wu and Associate Professor Thomas Peyrin.