AES Block Cipher

The Advanced Encryption Standard, a symmetric block cipher operating on 128-bit blocks with Galois field arithmetic.

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Commitment Schemes

Cryptographic primitives allowing a party to commit to a value while keeping it hidden, and later reveal it with a binding guarantee.

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Cryptographic Hash Functions

Deterministic functions mapping arbitrary-length input to fixed-length digests with collision resistance and preimage resistance.

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Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange

A protocol enabling two parties to establish a shared secret over an insecure channel using discrete logarithms.

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Digital Signatures

Cryptographic schemes binding a message to a signer's identity, providing authentication, integrity, and non-repudiation.

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Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Public-key cryptography built on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves over finite fields.

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Lattice-Based Cryptography

Post-quantum cryptographic constructions built on the computational hardness of lattice problems like LWE and SVP.

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RSA Cryptosystem

A public-key cryptosystem based on the computational hardness of factoring large integers.

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Secret Sharing Schemes

Methods for distributing a secret among multiple parties so that only authorized subsets can reconstruct it.

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Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Interactive or non-interactive protocols enabling a prover to convince a verifier of a statement's truth without revealing any additional information.

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