NSUCRYPTO-2024, the eleventh international cryptography Olympiad, took place October 13 to 21. The largest event in the field of information security, the NSU Cryptographic Center was an active participant.
Natalia Tokareva, Chairperson of the Olympiad Program Committee and NSU Associate Professor, commented
Interest in cryptography is constantly growing. As the main organizers of the Olympiad, we facilitate this growth by conducting cryptography summer schools on information security in different Russian cities. These attract new co-organizers and partners. It is very exciting that this year we are celebrating a record number of participants.
During the week, participants worked on solving fourteen diverse problems. Their topics included cryptographic protocols and algorithms, post-quantum cryptography, steganography, historical ciphers, and pseudo-random sequence generators.
Non-Stop University CRYPTO is the only international cryptography Olympiad that contains educational and unsolved scientific problems. Anyone from anywhere in the world can participate. English is the official language of the Olympiad. Traditionally, after the Olympiad results are determined, scientific articles are published with an analysis of the problems. This Includes unsolved problems that require further research.
The organizers and partners of the Olympiad are the Cryptographic Center (Novosibirsk), the National Technological Center for Digital Cryptography, Novosibirsk State University, the Sofia Kovalevskaya North-West Center for Mathematical Research, the University of Leuven (Belgium), the companies "Kryptonit" and "Aktiv", the Southern Federal University, the Belarusian State University, and Tomsk State University. The official results of the Olympiad are announced in November.