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          歡迎加入 "密碼與資訊安全實驗室" 

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We are trying to find suitable students who are interested 
in applied cryptography and wish to work hard. Cryptography 
is an important research field all over the world. 
Most especially, it gradually becomes necessary for almost 
all digital or network oriented applications.  
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First of all, welcome to join our department.
Below are some questions that I usually asked to any new student. 
These questions help me to identify who might be suitable 
for our laboratory.  The questions can also help you to 
make decision on whether our laboratory fits your interest. 
Please think about it before writing me e-mail. 

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   Please visit our laboratory (Room A312, telephone number 
03-4227151 ext 35331) if possible and try to understand 
what kind of research and work we did in the past few years. 
Especially, to understand my request/expectation on research students. 
   If you are still interested in our research lab, then 
please think about the following questions. 
(1) Do you like topics such as algorithm or do you like to 
    think and to analyze? 
(2) Do you like to do research or to resolve problem independently? 
    (I mean to find material and to read it by yourself 
     before making any discussion or asking any trivial question 
     to your teachers.)
(3) Do you like to have the chance to work together with 
    foreign researchers (of course in English)? 
    We usually have some cooperation with university or 
    institute outside Taiwan. 
(4) Do you enjoy team work with other students? 
(5) Do you wish to work hard to be on the top rank of a 
    research field, not only in Taiwan but also worldwide?
    I personally think that our lab is good enough in the 
    field of applied cryptography and computer security. 
    So, we urgently need good new members who wish to work hard. 
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Our recent research interests cover the following topics: 
(1) IC card physical cryptanalysis (including power monitoring 
    attack, timing attack, hardware fault attack, etc.) 
    and all kinds of countermeasure development and evaluation.
(2) Cryptographic schemes with provable security. 
(3) Fast implementation/algorithm issues of public key 
    cryptography (including exponentiation, modular multiplication, 
    and some others especially for preventing physical cryptanalysis). 
(4) Electronic payment schemes, new application development and 
    security analysis. 
(5) Digital signature, new system development and applications. 
(6) Authentication protocols. 
(7) Some other application oriented or theoretical topics on 
    cryptography, information security, or network security. 


People to contact:
Prof. Sung-Ming Yen  顏嵩銘  (director of LcIs)
http://www.csie.ncu.edu.tw/~yensm
E-mail:  yensm@csie.ncu.edu.tw
Fax:     (+886) 3-4222681
Homepage of LcIs:  http://www.csie.ncu.edu.tw/~yensm/lcis.html