Seminar Advanced Topics in Crytography
This course is listed in Aachen Campus as Seminar Advanced Topics in Cryptography and in Bonn Basis as Seminar Advanced Topics in Cryptography.
Responsible
Prof. Dr. Joachim von zur Gathen
Lecture
Time & Place
- Wednesday, 1000-1200, b-it 1.25.
First meeting: Wednesday, 09 April 2014.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of cryptography and fast understanding of mathematical and computer science topics is required.
Contents
The final topic is not yet determined. Previous instantiations dealt with fuzzy coding theory, Zero-Knowledge, PCP, ellitpic curve theory, analytical number theory, latest discrete logarithm records, ... In any case the topic will try to dig deeper than what you expect in a standard course or seminar.
Options
- Research reviews from latest conferences, eg. CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, ...
- Research front at ePrint: Selected papers.
- Security of symmetric crypto.
- Security of SHA3/Keccak and friends.
The chosen topic is
Cryptographic research on eprint: Selected papers
Schedule
- 30.04.14, 07.05.14, 14.05.14 Doğa Can Sertbaş:
Gora Adj and Alfred Menezes and Thomaz Oliveira and Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez (2014). Computing Discrete Logarithms in GF(36*137) and GF(36*163) using Magma. ePrint 2014/057. - 14.05.14, 28.05.14 Daniel Loebenberger:
Robert Granger and Thorsten Kleinjung and Jens Zumbrägel (2014).
Breaking `128-bit Secure' Supersingular Binary Curves (or how to solve discrete logarithms in GF(24*1223) and GF(212*367). ePrint 2014/119. - 28.05.14, 04.06.14 Christian Berghoff:
Razvan Barbulescu and Cécile Pierrot (2014). The Multiple Number Field Sieve for Medium and High Characteristic Finite Fields. ePrint 2014/147. - 18.06.14 Anahita Firouzi:
Nikolaos Karapanos and Srdjan Capkun (2014). On the Effective Prevention of TLS Man-In-The-Middle Attacks in Web Applications. ePrint 2014/150. - 25.06./02.07.14 Michael Nüsken: Counting smooth numbers.
- Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (1951). On the number of positive integers <=x and free of prime factors >y. Indagationes Mathematicae 13, 50-60. PDF.
- tba.
- 09./16.07.14 Serge Zang:
Jérémie Detrey (2014). FFS Factory: Adapting Coppersmith's "Factorization Factory" to the Function Field Sieve. ePrint 2014/419. - tba NN:
Robert Granger and Thorsten Kleinjung and Jens Zumbr\"agel (2014). On the Powers of 2. ePrint 2014/300.
Allocation
2 SWS.
- Master in Media Informatics: Computer and Communication Technology.
4 ECTS credits. - Master in Computer Science at University of Bonn: MA-INF 1209.
4 CP.
Students have to register this course with POS/BASIS. - Recommendation for diploma students of University of Bonn - Computer Science: A or A1, respectively.