Nigel Smart
Practical security protocols need both mathematical rigor and deployable engineering. Smart's work examines how public-key and multi-party techniques can move from theoretical constructions into real systems.
Nigel Smart is a full professor at KU Leuven's COSIC, the university's Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography group.
From theory to practice
Smart describes his research as work at the interface of public-key cryptography and cryptographic protocols, with an emphasis on turning theoretical constructions into practical solutions.
Research areas
His work has included elliptic-curve and pairing-based cryptography, key agreement, post-quantum cryptography, multi-party computation, and fully homomorphic encryption.
Community work
Smart co-founded the Real World Cryptography conference series, which brings applied and theoretical cryptography communities together around practical deployment concerns.
Timeline
- 1992Receives a Ph.D. from the University of Kent at Canterbury.
- 2000Begins a faculty appointment at the University of Bristol.
- 2018Joins KU Leuven's COSIC group.
Nigel Smart
- Type
- Person
- Era
- 1990s-Present
- Known for
- Cryptographic protocols; Multi-party computation; Real World Cryptography conference
- Tags
- cryptography, multi-party-computation, homomorphic-encryption, cryptographic-protocols, research
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