Date: Dec. 25, 2023

Source: College of Cyber Security

Author: GAO Boyu

Translator: LI Junxi

The 16th China Cryptology Conference was held in Guangzhou from Dec. 8 to 10, organized by the Chinese Association for Cryptologic Research (CACR) and hosted by JNU.

In a welcome speech, JNU Party Secretary Lin Rupeng pointed out that the Internet era had brought higher demands for information security and said cryptology was the cornerstone of ensuring cyberspace security. He emphasized that JNU would continue to increase investment in the cyberspace security and cryptology disciplines, research capabilities and talent cultivation. The university aims to gather outstanding talents from both domestic and international arenas to make new contributions to national security, he said.

(Lin delivering the welcome speech)

Wang Xiaoyun, CACR chairman and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said modern cryptology had evolved to resist attacks from quantum computing power. Through multiple upgrades and iterations, he said, the science of cryptography has transformed into a specialized discipline with a solid mathematical foundation, integrating disciplines including information science, computer science, and physics, fostering global development.

An Xiaolong, CACR's vice chairman and secretary-general, presided over the awards ceremony, announcing newly elected fellows, the winners of the 2021-22 CACR Awards, and the 2023 outstanding doctoral dissertations selected for the conference.

(The awards ceremony)

The conference invited seven top and well-known cryptologists from both China and abroad to give special presentations. It featured five subforums: Cryptology Frontier Cross-Forum, Outstanding Young Scholars Forum, Outstanding Paper Presentation Forum, Cryptology Application Forum and Open Forum. Thirty-nine experts and scholars, including National Distinguished Young Scholars, National Excellent Young Scholars and Overseas Excellent Young Scholars, were invited to deliver high-level academic and technological frontier reports.

(Presentation of certificates)

The conference was jointly organized by JNU's College of Cyber Security/Cryptography, Ant Research, Sansec Technology Co., Ltd., Koal Software Co., Ltd., and Beijing Cloud Authentication Co., Ltd. About 900 experts, scholars, researchers and graduate students from Chinese universities, research institutes, enterprises and institutions attended.