Applied Cryptography

• Explain and implement fundamental components of symmetric cryptographic algorithms
• Explain and implement optimized algorithms required for asymmetric cryptographic algorithms
• Explain and implement symmetric cryptographic primitives
• Explain and implement public-key cryptographic algorithms
• Analyze and implement attacks on practical cryptography
• Discuss the efficiency of concretely deployed cryptography
• Explain advanced practically used cryptography that is currently deployed or being deployed
• Disseminate practical knowledge about cryptographic algorithms and protocols

Fundamental algorithms to implement cryptography, use of cryptographic libraries, efficiency considerations in deployments of cryptography, leakage in cryptographic implementations, advanced cryptography such as authentication schemes, blockchains, and private set-intersection.

• 36 – 49 (Thurs 13-17)
• 6 – 20 (Thurs 13-17)

02231/01410, Understanding of the fundamentals of cryptography: RSA, Diffie-Hellman, block ciphers, cryptographic hash functions. Familiarity with programming, ideally in a systems programming language such as C, C++, Rust.

Lectures, student seminars and project work