International Olympiad in Cryptography NSUCRYPTO - NSUCRYPTO International Students' Olympiad in Cryptography

We are inviting you to take part in The Seventh International Olympiad in Cryptography NSUCRYPTO’2020.
Everybody can participate: school students, university students, professionals!

It consists of two independent Internet rounds:
- the first round (individual) will be held on October 18, 2020;
- the second round (team) will be held during October 19 – October 26, 2020.

Introductory lecture "Review of the AES" will be given by Nicky Mouha (NIST, USA) specially for the participants of the Olympiad. It starts on October, 18 at 3 p.m. NOVT (UTC+7).

Sponsors of the Olympiad:
-Cryptographic center (Novosibirsk);
-Mathematical Center in Akademgorodok;
-Novosibirsk State University.

Introductory lecture "Review of the Advanced Encryption Standard" will be given by Nicky Mouha (NIST, USA) specially for the participants of the Olympiad.

We are glad to inform you that the Review of AES proposed by NIST will be presented at the first time in the history! It is done specially for NSUCRYPTO. So, join us:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgPgiLl3WCqMLXU38tVYulw/
The lecture starts an hour before the start of the first round of the Olympiad, namely on October, 18 at 3 p.m. NOVT (UTC+7).

Nicky Mouha is a researcher at the Computer Security Division of NIST (USA), a member of crypto standartization committees at NIST, ISO/IEC JTC1 SC27, and ASC X9F; a co-author of the Triple DES (3DES) standard, which is one of only two block ciphers that are approved for use by the U.S. government. Nicky is well known as the designer of the Chaskey algorithm and as the inventor of the MILP and SAT-based techniques that have now become the standard tools to analyze the security of cryptographic algorithms against statistical attacks.

Mathematical problems occupy a special place in cryptography. It is well-known that mathematical ideas and results often serve as a stimulus for creation of modern cryptographic systems. Here one can mention concepts of public-key cryptography, algebraic foundations of many symmetric ciphers, applications of cryptographic Boolean functions, etc. It is worth mentioning that language of cryptography is rather mathematical.

NSUCRYPTO is the unique cryptographic Olympiad containing scientific mathematical problems for professionals, school and university students from any country. Its aim is to involve young researchers in solving curious and tough scientific problems of modern cryptography. From the very beginning, the concept of the Olympiad was not to focus on solving olympic tasks but on including unsolved research problems at the intersection of mathematics and cryptography. There were more than 1900 participants from 52 countries in the first six Olympiads NSUCRYPTO (2014 - 2019)!

We invite you to participate!