Institute for Theoretical Information Technology

Cryptography I (V2/Ü1)

Dates:

Lecture Dates (Campus)
Exercise Dates (Campus)
Exam Dates (Campus)

Exam information

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Contents

Classical cryptosystems, Cryptanalysis of classical systems, entropy and perfect secrecy, fast block ciphers, number theoretic reference problems, cryptosystems based on discrete logarithms, public key cryptography

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge in stochastics and number theory.

Literature

• Lecture notes will be updated each week before the lecture, the current version will be available for download as pdf-file and in postscript format.
• The bibliography.
• The "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Menezes, van Oorschot and Vanstone (Download from the web pages of the University of Waterloo (Canada)).
• Lecture notes of the lecture "Stochastik für Informatiker" (in German)
• The Book "Informationstheorie" by R. Mathar.

Exercises:

Download of exercise sheets:

• Exercises1 (22.10.07): Download pdf
• Exercises2 (29.10.07): Download pdf
• Exercises3 (05.11.07): Download pdf
• Exercises4 (12.11.07): Download pdf
• Exercises5 (19.11.07): Download pdf
• Exercises6 (26.11.07): Download pdf
• Exercises7 (03.12.07): Download pdf
• Exercises8 (10.12.07): Download pdf
• Exercises9 (17.12.07): Download pdf
• Exercises10 (14.01.08): Download pdf
• Exercises11 (21.01.08): Download pdf
• Exercises12 (28.01.08): Download pdf

Exam:

The exam will take place on friday, march 14, 2008 from 9 am to 12 am in the lecture hall AH VI.
Information about Exam

Consultation hour:

Prof. Dr. R. Mathar Mi. 09:00 - 10:00
Dipl.-Math. Michael Naehrig By arrangement