ITC8240 Cryptography

Course information

Code: ITC8240 Cryptography

ECTS: 6

Assessment: examination

Instructors:

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

Consultation:

Mondays 14:30 - 15:30 SOC-415

Please inform instructors of your attendance by email

Schedule

Lecture: Mon 16:00 - 17:30 U06A-201 Practice slots:

        Wed 10:00 - 11:30 SCI-059, weeks 11 - 15 room SCI-028
        Wed 12:00 - 13:30 ICT-A2
        Wed 14:00 - 15:30 ICT-A2

Announcements

• Math test results are available here.
• Topics to recap for test 1 Test 1 topics
• Solutions to test 1 here

Lectures

1. Introduction
2. Number Theory
3. Simple Ciphers and Attacks
4. Breaking Imperfect Ciphers
5. Unbreakable Ciphers
6. Key Establishment
7. RSA Cryptosystem and a proof of the Lagrange theorem in detail

Exercises

1. Modular arithmetic
2. Elementary Cryptanalysis
3. Theory of Probability
4. TBA: Information-theoretic security in the Ideal Cipher Model
5. Key Establishment
6. RSA Cryptosystem and some RSA attacks

Assignments

1. Assignment 1. Deadline: October 28th