"Let’s start with some context. The story begins 1,800 years ago with a mathematician named Diophantus, who lived in Alexandria and whose work gave rise to many things we learn in high school algebra."

"The ideas he developed to solve one particular problem described something that is heavily studied in mathematics and called an elliptic curve."

"Cryptography is a beautiful area involving elegant mathematics."

"The same time, the results are practical and used in real-world systems."

"If a browser wants to talk to a bank, it needs to exchange keys to encrypt the communication."

"Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, working at Stanford, invented an ingenious way to do this."

"The problem is that to make their method secure, you have to make the numbers involved quite large, and that makes it slow."

"I head the applied cryptography group and co-direct the computer security lab at Stanford University."

"My group’s research focuses on applications of cryptography to computer security."

"Our work includes cryptosystems with novel properties, cryptography for blockchains, Web security, and cryptanalysis."

"We propose a fully functional identity-based encryption scheme (IBE)."

"The scheme has chosen ciphertext security in the random oracle model assuming an elliptic curve variant of the computational Diffie-Hellman problem."

"Our system is based on the Weil pairing."

"We give precise definitions for secure identity based encryption schemes and give several applications for such systems."

"We introduce a short signature scheme based on the Computational Diffie-Hellman assumption on certain elliptic and hyper-elliptic curves."

"The signature length is half the size of a DSA signature for a similar level of security."

"Our short signature scheme is designed for systems where signatures are typed in by a human or signatures are sent over a low-bandwidth channel."

"We construct two efficient Identity Based Encryption (IBE) systems that are selective identity secure without the random oracle model."

"Selective identity secure IBE is a slightly weaker security model than the standard security model for IBE."

"In this model the adversary must commit ahead of time to the identity that it intends to attack, whereas in the standard model the adversary is allowed to choose this identity adaptively."

"I would like to emphasize that I am not a pure photographer."

"I won many prizes in the field of photography, but nevertheless I am not a photographer in its usual sense."

"The reason I say so, is because photography is only a medium and photographs are just a starting material for my work, but not the final result."

"When I started photographing, I did not understand what exactly I want to achieve."

"I remember that I liked to capture moments from the lives of people and the amazing beauty of nature."

"After some time, I felt that this was not enough for me."

"I had a desire to tell not about what I see at a given scene and moment, but about what worries me at this moment in my life."

"I said that I turned my camera from the outside world to the inside world and these words still seem to reflect most accurately."

"I stopped capturing events and began to capture my thoughts and feelings."

"I am mainly an autodidact and have not received a systematic education in the field of photography."

"I took various courses in photography, post-processing, art history, drawing and composition."

"I have always been attracted to images where I saw some kind of secret, strangeness or hidden drama."

"When it was cold and foggy, I liked to watch a beckoning light from the windows of strangers’ houses."

"I also liked to watch how, under the street lighting, people’s faces could take a strange and sometimes even sinister expressions."

"I found myself thinking that I would like to transfer the people I meet on the streets to another time or space."

"I think that is what led me to what I am doing today."

"I think, that such things as classification and definition of style."

"Is probably the work of an art critic."

"I just express my thoughts and feelings using a personal visual language that closest to me, without thinking of which style to attribute it to."

"I started from classic photography during my travels around the world."

"In my early photographs I tried to seize the moments and documenting the surrounding world."

"I’m creating my own world of subjective reality with my camera and computer."

"My artworks are far from classic photography and remind paintings of Renaissance period and at the same time neo-surrealism."

"Truthful fiction is the basis of my creative style."

"My artworks don’t reflect the reality as we know it, yet convey a deep and true message."

"I believe, a fictional work may carry sometimes more truth than documentary work."

"As best said in the famous phrase "Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures"."

"I use allegories as a way to express my understanding of the modern world."

"I talk about what's really important to me today."