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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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We try to find some new PhD program students with good 
potential and with enough background related to cryptography 
or information security.  Especially, we welcome students 
who wish to work hard and wish to take challenge. 
Most importantly, we strongly expect the students can have 
their own worldwide platform, but not only within Taiwan, 
after receiving their PhD degree. 
All PhD students are requested to present 2 or more papers 
at internationally renowned cryptographic conferences. 

Below are some questions that 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 PhD students. 
   If you are still interested in our research lab, then 
please think about the following questions. 
(1) 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. 
(2) 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 PhD students who wish to work hard. 
(3) Do you wish and have the basic capability to review 
    good papers frequently?  We served usually for many 
    renowned international conferences (and journals) for 
    papers review.  So, you will be assigned many papers 
    each year to review and to prepare very high quality 
    review reports. 
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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  ÃC·C»Ê  (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