Cryptographic Protocols

Schedule 2015-2016 3rd Quarter

• Wednesdays from 10.45-12.30h (3^rd+4^th hour) at auditorium 13
• Fridays from 13.45-15.30h (5^th+6^th hour) at metaforum 7

Lecture 1	February 3. Homework: study Preface, Sections 1.1-2, 2.1.1. Exercises *1.3, 1.7, 1.8, 1.12. No hand-in.
Lecture 2	February 5. Homework: study Sections 1.3.1-2, 2.1.2. Exercises 1.13(i-iii), *1.13(iv), 1.14, 1.16, *1.18, 1.24, *1.25, 2.1, 2.4. Hand in before Wednesday February 17, 10.45am.
Lecture 3	February 17. Howework: study Sections 1.3.3-4, 2.1.3. Exercises 1.31, 1.33(a,b), 1.34. No hand-in.
Lecture 4	February 19. Homework: study Sections 2.1.4, 2.2, 3. Exercises *1.32(a), 1.33(c,d,g,h), 1.39, 2.5, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5. Hand in before Wednesday March 2, 10.45am.
Lecture 5	March 2. Homework: study Sections 4.1-4, 4.5.1. Exercise 2.3, 2.6, 4.2. No hand-in.
Lecture 6	March 4. Homework: study Sections 4.5.2, 4.6.1, 5.1. Exercises *5.4, 5.17(a,b), 5.18. Hand in before Wednesday March 9, 10.45am.
Lecture 7	March 9. Homework: study Sections 4.5.3, 4.6, 5.2.1-2. Exercises 5.9, 5.10. No hand-in.
Lecture 8	March 11. Homework: study Sections 5.2.3-4, 5.3. Exercises 5.13, 5.16, 5.17(d), *5.17(i). Hand in before Wednesday March 16, 10.45am.
Lecture 9	March 16. Homework: study Sections 5.2.5, 5.4.1-2. Exercises 5.17(f), 5.25. No hand-in.
Lecture 10	March 18. Homework: study Sections 5.4.3, 6.1. Exercises 5.17(k), 5.27, 6.2. Hand in before Wednesday March 23, 10.45am.
Lecture 11	March 23. Homework: study Sections 6.2-3, 7.1-2. Exercises *5.20, 5.28(ii), *6.4, 6.5, 7.1, 7.2. No hand-in.
Lecture 12	March 30. Homework: study Sections 7.3, 8. Exercises 8.2, 8.3. No hand-in.
Lecture 13	April 1. Q & A.

Written exam: Friday April 8, 2016, 9.00-12.00h; resit: Friday June 24, 2016, 18.00-21.00h.

Lecture notes

Further reading

• A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra (Version 2) by Victor Shoup, Cambridge University Press, 2008. Great textbook providing extensive background, and beyond. Free download available.
• Secure Multiparty Computation and Secret Sharing by Ronald Cramer, Ivan Damgård, and Jesper Buus Nielsen, Cambridge University Press, 2015. Great expository text on information-theoretic secure multiparty computation and supporting techniques. See online information.
• 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.
• Fundamentals of Cryptology: A Professional Reference and Interactive Tutorial by Henk van Tilborg, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. See online information. Classic text with many worked examples in Mathematica (PDF and Mathematica notebook).
• 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/.