The Discipline consists of 22 employees: 6 Professors /Associate Professors, 2 Assistant Professors (University lectors), 3 Postdocs and Researchers and 11 PhD. Candidates (August 2022). Members of the Discipline are participating in the primary research group NACL and several other research groups such as Cyber Defence (CCIS), System Security (S2G), Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Research Group, the Networking Research Group and eHealth and Welfare Security Research Group. We are also involved in the NORCICS activities.

Cryptography is the science for developing cryptosystems and, along with cryptanalysis, a subfield of cryptology. With the help of cryptographic procedures such as encryption, data should be protected from unauthorized access and exchanged securely.

Cryptology has four main goals regarding the data and the participants: 1. The data is confidential and can be read only by authorized persons; 2. The data cannot be changed during transmission or storage without this being noticeable; 3. Fourth, the sender and the recipient can confirm each other as the originator or destination of the information; 4. Finally, the authorship of the message can no longer be disputed afterward.

But modern cryptography has developed and has many other subfields and subgoals. At the IIK Cryptology Discipline, we actively research the following subfields: Cryptographic primitives, Cryptographic protocols, Formal modelling and analysis, Network security protocols, Post-quantum cryptography, Financial cryptography and blockchain and Lightweight cryptography.

The plan for 2023 is to actively develop the IIK Cryptology Discipline into the national hub for top-quality Cryptographic Engineering research.