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Helsinki University of Technology, 
     Laboratory for Theoretical Computer Science

T-79.5502 Advanced Course in Cryptology (5 cr) P

Spring 2006

The course T-79.5502 replaces either the course T-79.513 Seminar on Cryptography and Security Protocols or either the course T-79.514 Special Course on Cryptology or the course T-79.515 Cryptology: Special Topics. The course T-79.5502 will be lectured by Professor Kaisa Nyberg in Spring 2006 in Teaching Period IV (March 12 – May 5).


General Information

  • Prerequisites: Course T-79.5501 Cryptology/T-79.503 Foundations of Cryptology
  • Lectures and Seminars: Tuesdays and Thursdays 14-16, hall TB353 starting from the 14th of March. Lectures and Seminars are held in English.
  • Course material:
    • Textbook
      Wenbo Mao: Modern Cryptography, Theory and Practice,
      Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2004
  • Requirements:
    • To pass the course the student must give a presentation in the seminar and take the exam. The area of the exam is all material covered in the lectures and seminar presentations.
  • Exams:
    • Thursday, the 11th of May 2006, at 16-19 in T1 Exam
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Course Plan

The course has two parts. The first part (Mar 14 - Apr 6) consists of lectures given by the teacher. The second part (Apr 20 - May 4) consists of seminar presentations given by the students. The topics will be distributed to the students at the first lecture the 14th of March.

Lectures

  • Tue Mar 14
    Seminar Course Agenda and distribution of topics pdf
    Introduction (Ch 1, 2) pdf
  • Tue Mar 21
    Computational Complexity (Ch 4) pdf
  • Thu Mar 23
    Insecurity of Text-book Crypto (Ch 8) pdf
  • Tue Mar 28
    seminar (see below)
  • Thu Mar 30
    Bit Security (Ch 9) pdf ;
    Authentication, Simmons theory pdf
  • Tue Apr 4 (by Sven Laur)
    Formal and Strong Security Definitions I (Sections 14.1-4) pdf
  • Thu Apr 6
    Formal and Strong Security Definitions II (Chapter 14) pdf
  • Thu May 4 Starting at 13:15!
    Rescue of RSA-OAEP (Section 15.2.4) Overview pdf

Seminar Agenda

  • Tue Mar 28
    Mikko Kiviharju: ID-based authentication frameworks and primitives (Ch 13) slides (pdf)
  • Thu April 20
    Vesa Vaskelainen: RSA-OAEP (Section 15.2) slides (pdf)
  • Tue April 25
    Aleksi Hänninen: Cramer-Shoup public-key cryptosystem (Section 15.3) slides (pdf)
  • Thu April 27
    Date changed! New date Wed April 26 at 15-17 in TB357.
    Santeri Saarinen: Strong and provable secure ElGamal type signatures (Section 16.3) slides (pdf)
    Alessandro Tortelli: RSA and Rabin signatures, signcryption (Section 16.4-5) slides (pdf)
  • Tue May 2
    Samuli Larvala: Bellare-Rogaway model (Sections 17.2 and 17.3) slides (pdf)
    Maarit Hietalahti: CBC mode of operation (7.8.2; 17.2.1.2; 12.5.4) slides (pdf)


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