ITC8240 Cryptography

Course information

Code: ITC8240 Cryptography

ECTS: 6

Assessment: examination

Lecturers/Instructors:

• Ahto Buldas ahto dot buldas at taltech dot ee
• Aleksandr Lenin aleksandr dot lenin at taltech dot ee

Announcements

• Mathematics test results: MathTestResults_2020_Fall.pdf.

Lectures: Every Thursday 16:15-17:45 in ICO-316 or remotely, as listed below:

• Sep 3: ICO-316. Introduction # Introduction to the course.pdf
• Sep 10: Remotely. Simple ciphers and attacks # Simple ciphers and attacks.pdf # Elementary number theory.pdf
• Sep 17: Remotely. Attacks against classical ciphers # Attacks against classical ciphers.pdf

For technical reasons (Unable to connect Moodle Big Blue Dot), the Sep.17 remote lecture is replaced with individual work. Please read the slides at home (both the Sep 10 and Sep 17 slides) and write your questions to Moodle's forum.

• Sep 24: Remotely. Attacks against classical ciphers.
• Oct 1: Remotely. Theory of unbreakable ciphers. # unbreakable-ciphers.pdf
• Oct 8: Remotely. Theory of unbreakable ciphers (continues).
• Oct 15: Remotely. Key Establishment.

Course materials:

• Moodle page: https://moodle.taltech.ee/course/view.php?id=30639
• Student enrollment key: ITC8240_2020_FALL