Olympiad is the only international competition in cryptography. It brings together schoolchildren and students, as well as professionals from all over the world. Anyone can take part in the Olympiad, regardless of geographical location. The official language of the Olympiad is English. The purpose of the Olympiad is to attract young researchers to solve the problems of modern cryptography.
The Olympiad is organized by , the Mathematical Center in Akademgorodok, 吃瓜官网, (Belgium), , , and .
NSUCRYPTO is included in the list of international olympiads, the number of award-winning students of which affects the university's entry into the RAEX-100 ranking of the best universities in Russia. The winners of the Olympiad have the right to free education according to the quota of the Russian Federation in the English-speaking master's programs at NSU.
In 2022, the Olympiad was held from October 16 to 24. It was attended by 623 people from 36 countries of the world. The geography of the Olympiad is clearly shown on the page .
16 tasks of varying complexity were offered to the participants. Among them are the problems of quantum computing in cryptography, the generation of keys for working with electronic money, the design of ciphers and new cryptographic protocols, the analysis of modern hash functions and, of course, fun tasks for ingenuity. For example, in one of them it was necessary to remember the cipher "Polybius's square" (the letter "C" is encoded as 13, the letter "R" as 42, etc.) and build a chain of letter codes, moving sequentially along the square, starting from selected cell and separating the letters with dots: 21.42. Continue?
Chairman of the Program Committee, Associate Professor of NSU, Natalya Tokareva notes that this year the number of countries participating in the Olympiad has increased.
Summing up and announcement of winners will take place at the end of December 2022.