2WC13 Cryptography 2 (2WC17 Cryptographic Protocols 1)

1. Lectures 1-7 covering Cryptographic Protocols (concluded with a written exam 2XC13/2WC17)
   Lecturer: Berry Schoenmakers, MF 6.105, tel. 4769, berry@win.tue.nl
2. Lectures 8-14 covering Cryptographic Systems (concluded with written assignments)

Schedule 2014-2015 2nd Semester (3rd Quarter)

Part 1	Cryptographic Protocols
Lecture 1	February 2. Homework: study Preface, Sections 1.1-2, 2.1.1. Exercises 1.12, 1.13(i-iii), 1.15, 1.16, 2.1; bonus: 1.13(iv), 1.18. Hand in before February 9, 13.45h.
Lecture 2	February 9. Homework: study Sections 1.3.1-3, 2.1.2. Exercises 1.31, 1.33(b,d,e,f,h), 2.4; bonus: 1.32(a), 1.34. Hand in before March 2, 13.45h.
Lecture 3	March 2. Homework: study Sections 1.3.4, 2.1.3-4, 2.2, 3. Exercises 1.39, 2.5, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4; bonus: 3.5. Hand in before March 9, 13.45h.
Lecture 4	March 9. Homework: study Sections 4.1-4, 4.5.1-2, 4.6.1, 5.1. Exercises 2.3, 4.2, 5.17(a), 5.18; bonus: 5.4. Hand in before March 16, 13.45h.
Lecture 5	March 16. Homework: study Sections 4.5.3, 4.6, 5.2-3. Exercises: 5.9, 5.10, 5.16, 5.17(d); bonus: 5.17(i). Hand in before March 23, 13.45h.
Lecture 6	March 23. Homework: study Sections 5.4, 6.1-2. Exercises: 5.17(f,k), 5.25, 6.2; bonus: 5.19(a). Hand in before March 30, 13.45h.
Lecture 7	March 30. Homework: study Sections 6.3, 7, 8. Recommended exercises: 5.28(i-ii), 6.5, 7.1, 7.2.

Bonus exercises may be skipped when practicing for the exam.
Written exam is about all topics covered in the lecture notes, except for:

• Witness Indistinguishability/Witness Hiding (Section 4.6)
• Oblivious Transfer (Section 7.3)
• Blind Signatures (Chapter 8)

Written (partial) exam 2XC13/2WC17: Thursday April 16, 2015, 13.30-16.30h; resit: Thursday June 25, 2015, 13.30-16.30h.

Lecture notes

For information and lecture notes on Cryptographic Systems, see Cryptography 2, Part 2, Cryptographic Systems.

Further reading

• Cryptography: An Introduction by Nigel Smart, McGraw-Hill, 2003. Modern introduction at a reasonable level of detail. Currently available in its 3rd edition, which can be downloaded for free.
• Introduction to Modern Cryptography by Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell, Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, 2007. An extensive, rigorous, yet accessible treatment of modern cryptography, based on formal security definitions and with security proofs; mostly covering basic encryption and authentication techniques though. See online information.
• Foundations of Cryptography by Oded Goldreich, 2001 (Vol. 1), 2004 (Vol. 2). Thorough treatment of theoretical results in cryptography, with an extensive treatment of zero-knowledge protocols and general two/multi-party protocols. See online information.
• Cryptography: Theory and Practice by Douglas Stinson, 3rd edition, CRC Press, 2005. See online information.
• Complexity and Cryptography: An Introduction by John Talbot and Dominic Welsh, Cambridge University Press, 2006. Accessible treatment mainly of cryptographic algorithms, but also of some cryptographic protocols, combined with the relevant notions and ideas of computational complexity. See online information.
• Handbook of Applied Cryptography by Alfred Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot, and Scott Vanstone, 1997. Download for free at http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/.