CAC · Cryptography and Complexity

Modern cryptography has deeply rooted connections with computational complexity theory and other areas of computer science. This proposal suggests to explore several {\em new connections} between questions in cryptography and questions from other domains, including computational complexity, coding theory, and even the natural sciences. The project is expected to broaden the impact of ideas from cryptography on other domains, and on the other hand to benefit cryptography by applying tools from other domains towards better solutions for central problems in cryptography.