CSL759: Notes


Topic
Date
Slides
Additional Material
Introduction
04 Jan
PDF

Introduction, Stream Ciphers, PRGs
08 Jan
PDF

PRGs, One time Encryption, Hybrid Argument
15 Jan
PDF
Asymptotic Security(PDF),
Link to lecture notes of Yevgeniy Dodis for Predictability => Indistinguishability(PDF)
PRG expansion, Types of Attacks,
Block Ciphers (DES), PRPs
22 Jan
PDF
PDF

Pseudorandom function, CPA-security.
29 Jan
PDF

Symmetric Encryption, Modes of Operation (ECB, CTRC, CBC$)
Minor-1 discussion
12 Feb
PDF
PDF

Hash Functions
Message Authentication
19 Feb
PDF
PDF

Message Authentication
Authenticated Encryption
26 Feb
PDF

Mihir's slides on Authenticated Encryption(PDF)
Link to a survey paper by John Black
Number Theory: Towards Public Key Cryptography
12 Mar
PDF
(KL scan PDF)
Hard Problems (Factoring, RSA inverse, DL, CDH, DDH), Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
19 Mar
PDF

Public Key Encryption (RSA, El Gamal)
02 Apr
PDF

Prof. Mihir Bellare's slides on PKE (PDF)
Public Key Encryption, Digital Signature
09 Apr


Prof. Mihir Bellare's slides on DS (PDF)
Key Distribution, Misc topics(Bit commitment, coin flipping etc.)
16 Apr
PDF
Dialogue in four scenes.