Postdoctoral position in secure communication, Seville (Spain)

Postdoc position in Seville

We offer a one-year postdoc position at the University of Seville to work in a project on unconditionally secure communication. Candidates should have a PhD, a solid background and publications in computer science, logic, cryptography, algorithm specification or related areas. The position will start preferably from September 2013 and no later than November 2013. Interested candidates may send a CV, list of publications, research statement and the names and contact information of two references to Fernando Soler-Toscano <fsoler at us.es>. The gross salary is 2200 eur/month.

Deadline for application: 1st June 2013. Candidates are encouraged to contact Fernando Soler-Toscano before the deadline and the position will be filled immediately once a suitable candidate has been found.

Project team: - Andrés Cordón-Franco: http://www.cs.us.es/~acordon/- David Fernández-Duque: http://personal.us.es/dfduque/ - Fernando Soler-Toscano: http://personal.us.es/fsoler/- Fernando R. Velázquez-Quesada: http://personal.us.es/frvelazquezquesada/

Project description:
In the Russian cards problem, Alice, Bob and Cath draw three, three and one cards, respectively, from a deck of seven. Alice and Bob must then communicate their entire hand to each other, without Cath learning the owner of a single card. Unlike many traditional problems in cryptography, however, they are not allowed to hide or codify the messages they exchange from Cath. The problem is then to find methods through which they can achieve this. We have several methods that generalize the original Russian cards problem to different deck sizes and deals. The purpose of this project is the extend some of these methods and develop applications to cryptography.