8th August 2003

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The University of Ulster has joined forces with a leading Chinese University to investigate new methods of improving the security of Internet communications.

This initial £30,000 project, which is headed by Coleraine-based Professor Gerard Parr and Professor Donghui Guo of Xiamen University in Fujian province, forms part of a wider international initiative linking the UK's Royal Society and China’s National Research Agencies.

Existing data encryption technologies are inadequate to meet the needs of the new generation of broadband Internet, said Professor Parr. “We will be working to develop new kinds of encryption that will allow secure transmission of sensitive data - for example, financial information, patient medical records, and military and law enforcement intelligence - over the Internet.

"I’m absolutely delighted that the University of Ulster has been selected for this prestigious Royal Society project, said Professor Parr, who heads up the Internet Technologies Research Group within the University’s Faculty of Informatics.

"The competition for the joint project grants was fierce, and took in all UK Universities and institutes, as well as all the universities of China"

"It's a recognition of the world-class quality of the telecommunications expertise we have developed here at the University of Ulster that we were selected for funding".

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