Advanced Methods of Cryptography (V2/Ü1)

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Dates

Lecture Dates (Campus)
Exercise Dates (Campus), it will start at 10:00 am.
Exam Dates (Campus) (this lecture, written)
Exam Dates (Campus) (Cryptography I, oral, chapters 1 to 8)
Exam Dates (Campus) (AMC, oral, chapters 9 to 13)

Contents

A few aspects of classical cryptosystems, cryptanalysis of classical systems, perfect secrecy, fast block ciphers (AES), number-theoretic reference problems, cryptosystems based on discrete logarithm, public-key cryptography, cryptographic hash functions, signature schemes, elliptic curves

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge in stochastics and number theory.

Literature

News

On March 25, 2014 at 11am, we provide an exam review in the seminar room of TI (WSH 24A407).

The results are now online.

The first lecture will take place on Friday, 18.10.2013, at 8:15h in the lecture hall BS312, Mies-van-der-Rohe-Str. 1.

The first exercise will take place on Friday, 25.10.2013, at 10:00h in the lecture hall BS312, Mies-van-der-Rohe-Str. 1.

There will be no lecture and no exercise on Friday, 01.11.2013, due to Allerheiligen.

There will be no lecture and no exercise on Friday, 13.12.2013, due to Dies.

Usually, new exercise-sheets are available one week before the corresponding solutions are presented.

Students have the opportunity to hand in their solved problems of the current exercise before it is presented, using the L2P-website of this course. Corrections and comments are provided one week later.

Exercises

Exercises will start at 10:00 am.
Download of exercise sheets:

Exam

We offer a written exam to this lecture.

Furthermore, we offer an oral reexamination "Advanced Methods of Cryptography" covering chapters 9 to 13 from the script.

Last but not least, we offer an oral reexamination "Cryptography I" covering chapters 1 to 8 from the script.

The written examination will take place on Tuesday, 18.03.2014, in TEMP1, Republikplatz 9. The exam will begin at 13:15h.

The oral examinations will take place on Friday, 14.03.2014, at our institute.

During the exam you may use a non-graphical, non-programmable calculator from this list as well as the help-sheet (Hilfsblatt) of cryptography, which will be distributed by us at the same time as the exam problems. Bringing your own material is forbidden.

Preparation

As prepartion for the exam we offer the following.

A review exercise (Zusatzübung) will take place on Wednesday 05.03.14 at 10:00h in WSH, 4th floor, seminar room 24A407. Download of the review exercise.

We provide an extra consultation hour (Fragestunde) on Wednesday 12.03.14 at 10:00h in WSH, 4th floor, seminar room 24A407.

Consultation hour

Prof. Dr. R. Mathar upon agreement
Dr. Michael Reyer upon agreement
Dipl.-Ing. Henning Maier upon agreement


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