Applied Cryptography 2

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Content

This lecture aims to give you some in-depth knowledge of several recent state-of-the-art topics in cryptography. Topics to be covered:

1. Quantum cryptography
2. Cryptanalysis of block ciphers
3. Cryptanalysis of hash functions
4. Classic and modern methods for factoring and discrete logarithm problems (How to break modern public key cryptography.)
5. Elliptic curve cryptography
6. Lattices and continued fractions in cryptography
7. Post-Quantum cryptography

Preliminaries

It might be useful, if you already have some knowledge about the following concepts:

• Basic concepts in physics: photons, electrons, waves, interferences
• Basic concepts of probability: mean, variance, normal distribution, Poisson distribution, independent random variables (Mathworld)
• Data Encryption Standard (FIPS or any other crypto book)
• Number theory: RSA cryptosystem, factorization of integers, groups, modulo computations
• Fourier transform

Exams

For getting a KU mark, you have to give a presentation (see also practicals). For the VO mark, there will be a written exam

News

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Timetable

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Exercises

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