Motoko KAWAKITA

Associate Professor
Faculty of Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science

Research Theme

Algebraic Curves in Coding Theory and Cryptography

Coding theory and cryptography are key technologies for information and communication systems. It turns out that algebraic curves play a very important role, as algebro-geometric codes and elliptic curve cryptography were discovered in 1970 and 1985 respectively. There would still remain, however, a lot of unknown properties of those curves over finite fields. In this project, we will research them from the point of view of applications.