Xidian University is one of the earliest universities in China to carry out research on cryptography and information countermeasure, having profound academic accumulation. In 1959, the University took the lead in the study of secret communication in China; in 1993, it was approved to establish a doctoral program in cryptography, which was one of the first two doctoral programs in cryptography in China and the only doctoral program outside the military; in 2001, it established an undergraduate major in information security on the basis of cryptography discipline and was one of the first univ...