Rajendra Katti, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received a three-year, $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for the project “Optimal Recoding of Binary Numbers for Cryptographic Operations.”
Funded by the Division of Computer and Communication research, part of the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, the research is intended to lead to an efficient method for recoding numbers that are input to elliptic curve cryptosystems, resulting in less expensive cryptographic hardware for wireless applications such as “smart cards.”