Topic |
Date |
Slides |
Additional Material |
Introduction |
04 Jan |
PDF |
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Introduction, Stream Ciphers, PRGs |
08 Jan |
PDF |
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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 |
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Pseudorandom function, CPA-security. |
29 Jan |
PDF |
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Symmetric Encryption, Modes of Operation (ECB, CTRC, CBC$) Minor-1 discussion |
12 Feb |
PDF |
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Hash Functions Message Authentication |
19 Feb |
PDF |
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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 |
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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) |
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Key Distribution, Misc topics(Bit commitment, coin flipping etc.) |
16 Apr |
PDF |
Dialogue in four scenes. |