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Dr Ciara Rafferty

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Dr Ciara Rafferty

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

My research interests lie in the area of applied cryptography and hardware design.  I currently am working on research projects in post-quantum cryptography and homomorphic encryption.

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  • c.m.rafferty@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 1768
  • @CiaraMRafferty

Research Interests

  • Homomorphic encryption
  • Practical Post-quantum cryptography
  • Cryptographic hardware architectures
  • Functional encryption (identity-based encryption, attribute-based encryption)

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Research students

PhD area Advancing Cryptography for Secure Cloud Computation
Name Shabnam K
Years of study 2
Country UK

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