Advanced Methods of Cryptography (V2/Ü1)

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Lecture
Exercise
Exam
Reexamination Cryptography
Reexamination of AMC as held in WS2013/14

Extra Consultation Hour

There will be an extra consultation hour, where you may ask remaining questions, at 2015-03-10, 10:00. It will take place at the institute, room 24C414 (Seminarraum C).

Public key cryptography
Cryptographic hash functions
Signature schemes
Identification and entity authentication
Elliptic curves
Quantum cryptography

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge in stochastic and number theory. The knowledge of our lecture Cryptography is beneficial but not strictly required.

Literature

Our lecture notes for Cryptography & Advanced Methods of Cryptography.
Addendum to the lecture notes about the security of ElGamal signature scheme. This is the only relevant change to the last version of the script and is included in the latest version of the script above.
Handbook of Applied Cryptography by Menezes, van Oorschot and Vanstone.
Lecture notes of the lecture Stochastik für Informatiker by Rudolf Mathar.
The book Informationstheorie by Rudolf Mathar.
Complete list of the bibliography.
Video recordings of the lecture in WS2012/13 by Video AG.

Help-sheet

Help-sheet for Cryptography (english version)
Hilfsblatt zur Kryptographie (german version)

Pocket Calculator

While taking the written exam, you are allowed to use a pocket calculator from this list.

Exercises

Consultation hour

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rudolf Mathar upon agreement
Dipl.-Ing. Henning Maier upon agreement
Dipl.-Ing. Markus Rothe upon agreement

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