Technology Innovation Institute launches UAE-first cryptography challenges to enhance online security

Technology Innovation Institute launches UAE-first cryptography challenges to enhance online security

- Challenges aim to strengthen understanding of cryptosystems used globally to protect privacy of individuals, organizations

- To boost advancement of UAE’s advanced digital security capabilities

Abu Dhabi-UAE – Cryptography experts can now put their skills to the ultimate test. The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a leading global scientific research center and the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), today announced the launch of “TII McEliece Challenges” – the UAE’s first-ever cryptography challenges aimed at evaluating the concrete hardness of the renowned McEliece cryptosystem (McEliece).

The McEliece cryptosystem is a public key encryption scheme with a strong reputation for being resilient to attacks. Led by TII’s Cryptography Research Center (CRC), participants will be able to validate the security of the McEliece cryptosystem and, in doing so, identify possible weaknesses.

Conducted over the course of a year, the challenges will publish multiple McEliece-based cryptanalysis problems with increasing levels of difficulty that explore three different tracks - Theoretical Key Recovery Algorithms, Practical Key Recovery, and Message Recovery.

TII’s challenges aim to strengthen the understanding of cryptosystems that are used globally on a daily basis to protect the privacy of individuals and corporations and keep their conversations and data confidential. A first of