Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0558891

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0558891

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Explicit Construction of Global Function Fields with Many Rational Places. The use of error-correcting codes and cryptosystems is fundamental to the secure and reliable operation of many technological devices that we depend upon in our everyday lives. Essentially invisible, both coding theory and cryptography are essential for banking (ATM machines, e-banking), commerce (e-commerce), defense (cryptography) and entertainment (digital TV and radio, music CDs, DVDs). While certain families of "good" codes and cryptosystems can be constructed from specific function fields whose existence is guaranteed by abstract theory, often no actual construction for the function field is currently known. We aim to close this gap, making a greater range of "good" codes and cryptosystems available for practical applications.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 27-04-2005

End Date: 26-04-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $160,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Number Theory And Field Theory | Pure Mathematics | Mathematical Software | Coding And Information Theory |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Mathematical sciences

Other Keywords

Coding And Information Theory | Mathematical Software | Mathematical sciences | Number Theory And Field Theory | Pure Mathematics

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