Directions in Polynomial Reconstruction Based Cryptography

. In ACM, editor, Proceedings of the thirty-first annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing: Atlanta, Georgia, May 1–4, 1999, pages 537–546, New York, NY, USA, 1999. ACM Press. Aggelos Kiayias is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Con-necticut. He holds a PhD and MA from the City University of New York and his main research area is Cryptography. Dr. Kiayias is a Fulbright fellow and he was a Tutorial Speaker at the 2002 ACM Conference on Computer and Communica-tions Security on the subject of Electronic Voting. Dr. Kiayias is a graduate of the Mathematics Department of the University of Athens, Greece. Moti Yung received his B.Sc. andM.Sc. in Mathematics from Tel-Aviv University in 1978 and 1982 respectively. He got an M. Phil. and Ph.D. in Com-puter Science from Columbia University in 1987. Dr. Yung has over 25 years of experience in Computer Science and In-formation Technology (in research as well as in design, development, education and executive management). He is currentlya Senior Research Scientist Professor at Columbia University and an Independent Consultant. Previously he was the Chief Scientist and Vice President of CertcoInc. working in cryptographic technology, PKI, security and electronic commerce. He was with IBM research division from 1988 till 1996 where he received IBM’s outstanding innovation awardfor his research contributions leading to products. Dr. Yung has published extensively in Cryptography, Information Security and Foundations of Computer Science. He is an editor of the Jour-nal of Cryptology and the International Journal on Information Security and served as Crypto 2002 program chair.