Monika Polak
Adjunct Faculty
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
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Journal Paper
Ustimenko, Vasyl, et al. "On the Constructions of New Symmetric Ciphers Based on Nonbijective Multivariate Maps of Prescribed Degree." Security and Communication Networks 2019. (2019): 1-15. Web.
Published Conference Proceedings
Carenzo, Michael and Monika Katarzyna Polak. "Accelerating Multivariate Cryptography with Constructive Affine Stream Transformations." Proceedings of the 2019 14th Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS), Leipzig, Germany, 1-4 September, 2019. Ed. M. Ganzha, L. Maciaszek, and M. Paprzycki. Leipzig, Germany: IEEE Xplore Digital Library, 2019. Web.
Beshaj, Lubjana and Monika Katarzyna Polak. "On Hyperelliptic Curves of Genus 3." Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society Spring Central Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Algebraic Curves and Their Applications, Ohio State University. Ed. Lubjana Beshaj and Tony Shaska. Columbus, OH: American Mathematical Society, 2019. Print.
Currently Teaching
CSCI-662
Foundations of Cryptography
3 Credits
This course provides an introduction to cryptography, its mathematical foundations, and its relation to security. It covers classical cryptosystems, private-key cryptosystems (including DES and AES), hashing and public-key cryptosystems (including RSA). The course also provides an introduction to data integrity and authentication. Note: students who complete CSCI-462 may not take CSCI-662 for credit.