International Association
for Cryptologic Research

Applications are invited for a PhD studentship to work on a collaborative research project between Thales UK Research and Technology (TRT) and the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London.

The project is concerned with the application of cryptographic techniques to protect data in scenarios such as cloud computing, outsourcing, or other situations where secure storage and access to data is required on potentially untrusted platforms. There has been a lot of recent research into developing theoretical techniques that support these objectives, including searchable encryption and predicate encryption schemes in particular. The project will investigate the practical issues concerning the selection, implementation and deployment of such schemes for a variety of real application scenarios.

The student will spend most of the time in the academic setting of the ISG, but will be required to spend a minimum of three months at Thales UK’s Reading-based research and technology facility.

We are looking for a strong candidate with background in mathematics, computer science or electronic engineering (knowledge of cryptography is desirable, but not essential). The successful candidate will have good programming skills, communication and team-working skills; a strong interest in security is also desirable.

Funding Notes: The studentship is funded by the UK EPSRC and TRT and will pay university fees plus a stipend of £19,590 per annum) for three years. Note that there are rules for eligibility (please visit http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/students/Pages/eligibility.aspx BEFORE applying for the position).

Application: Informal inquiries to Prof. Keith Martin (keith.martin(at)rhul.ac.uk) or Dr Carlos Cid (carlos.cid(at)rhul.ac.uk).