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 can be found here
• The Dec 18 class is cancelled.

Examination dates:

• Jan 6 16:00 SOC-311
• Jan 20 16:00 SOC-311

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 some additional material
8. RSA failures
9. Signatures and hash functions
10. Identification and ZK
11. QC and PQC

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
7. Group Theory
8. Signatures and Hash Functions
9. Materials to prepare for test 2

Assignments

1. Assignment 1. Deadline: October 28th.
2. Assignment 2. Deadline: December 16th.