CISE Faculty Seminar: Lopamudra Praharaj

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Zoom Link: https://ufl.zoom.us/my/cherylresch

Biography: Lopamudra Praharaj is a dedicated and enthusiastic Ph.D. candidate specializing in Cybersecurity at Tennessee Technological University. She received the Master of Technology degree in Advanced Computer Science from Utkal University, India, and a master’s in computer applications degree from Biju Patnaik Technical University, India. Her research focuses on applying machine learning techniques in Smart Farming to enhance cyber resilience. With a strong background in computer science and a keen interest in agricultural technology, she combines her expertise in machine learning to investigate potential vulnerabilities and design robust security solutions for Smart Farming systems. Her work aims to protect critical agricultural infrastructure from cyber-attacks/threats, ensuring data integrity, privacy, and availability in an increasingly interconnected and digitized farming landscape.

Title: Introduction to Cryptography

Abstract: Cryptography emerged as a vital technology that enables parties to maintain the privacy of the information they send to each other, even in the presence of an adversary with access to the communication channel. While providing privacy remains a significant goal, the field has expanded to encompass many others, including not just other goals of communication security, such as guaranteeing integrity and authenticity of communications, but many more sophisticated and fascinating goals. Once primarily used in the military domain, cryptography is now widespread and often operating behind the scenes in everyday applications— frequently without users even realizing it. While shopping on the Internet, for instance, to buy a book at
www.amazon.com, cryptography ensures the privacy of the credit card number as it travels from the user to the shop’s server. In electronic banking, cryptography is vital in preventing fraud by ensuring that all transactions are secure, authenticated, and verifiable.