Seminar Advanced Topics in Crytography

This course is listed in Aachen Campus as Seminar Advanced Topics in Cryptography and in Bonn Basis as MA-INF 1209 Seminar Advanced Topics in Cryptography.

Lecture

Michael Nüsken

Time & Place

Thursday, 10⁰⁰-12⁰⁰, b-it 1.25.

First meeting: Thursday, 3 November 2016.

The time may be adjusted. (Options are Thursday 10-12, Wednesday 10-12, Wednesday 14-16.)

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of cryptography and fast understanding of mathematical and computer science topics is required.

Research front at ePrint: Selected papers.

ePrint.

Each participiant suggests three papers from ePrint, one of which is chosen. Each participant then presents his chosen paper in a session together with necessary background and writes a report.

Schedule

24.11.2016 Ashar Ahmad.
Sungwook Kim and Jinsu Kim and Dongyoung Koo and Yuna Kim and Hyunsoo Yoon and Junbum Shin (2016). Efficient Privacy-Preserving Matrix Factorization via Fully Homomorphic Encryption. eprint 2016/232.
01.12.2016 Michael Link.
Satsuya Ohata, Takahiro Matsuda & Kanta Matsuura (2016). Provably Secure Password Reset Protocol: Model, Definition, and Generic Construction. eprint 2016/345.
08.12.2016 Timm Ruland.
Gizem S. Çetin and Wei Dai and Yarkın Doröz and William J. Martin and Berk Sunar (2016). Blind Web Search: How far are we from a privacy preserving search engine? eprint 2016/801.
15.12.2016 Lars Möllenbrok.
Houda Ferradi, Rémi Géraud, Diana Maimut, David Naccache, and David Pointcheval (2016). Legally Fair Contract Signing Without Keystones. eprint 2016/363.
12.01.2017 Konstantin Samuel.
Mihir Bellare and Asha Camper Singh and Joseph Jaeger and Maya Nyayapati and Igors Stepanovs (2016). Ratcheted Encryption and Key Exchange: The Security of Messaging. eprint 2016/1028.
19.01.2017 Jan Lühr.
Alessandro Chiesa and Matthew Green and Jingcheng Liu and Peihan Miao and Ian Miers and Pratyush Mishra (2016). Decentralized Anonymous Micropayments. eprint 2016/1033.
02. & 09.02.2017 Michael Nüsken.
On the security of IPsec.

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.

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