Winter 2005/2006

Cryptography deals with methods for secure data transfer. In earlier times this was the domain of military and intelligence agencies, but today modern cryptography has grown into a key technology, enabling e-commerce and secure internet communications. Its many applications range from credit and debit cards, mobile phones, tv decoders, and electronic money to unforgeable electronic signatures ...

We follow the book Security Engineering by Ross Anderson which the author introduces as follows: `Security Engineering - a Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems' goes down into the details of applications such as automatic teller machines, burglar alarms, copyright protection mechanisms, de-identified medical record databases and electronic warfare systems. It also covers a lot of ...

In this lecture efficient implementations of cryptographic systems will be discussed. Although the topics of the course focus on the cryptography from an algorithmic point of view, several sessions are devoted to practical implementations on personal computers (PCs). The following materials will be discussed:

• An overview of Visual Studio .NET environment
• Long integer ...

Week 1: Algorithms & analysis Lecture notes
Assignments Week 2: Mathematical tools This ...