Applied Cryptography

Welcome to the homepage of the lecture Applied Cryptography. This lecture is part of the IT Sec Summer Term at IAIK and will be next held in the summer term 12.

Content

This lecture covers basic principles of cryptology:

• Classical cryptography (Caesar cipher, Vigenere, One-Time Pad)
• Symmetric encryption and hash functions (DES, AES, SHA-1)
• Asymmetric encryption (RSA)
• Digital signatures (RSA, DSA)
• Identification protocols
• Key-exchange protocols
• Zero-knowledge proofs
• Electronic payments
• Mobile security
• Internet Security (basic elements)

Exams

The VO exam is a written exam. It consists of two questions that selected from the lists of questions that can be found on the last slide for each lecture.

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