Daniel Hirschkoff

Cryptography and Security

Course offered in the second semester of M1.

Course contents:

This course is an introduction to the different facets of modern cryptography.

The following topics will be addressed:

  • Symmetric cryptography
    Pseudo-random number generators
    Pseudo-random functions
    Message Authentication Codes
    Stream ciphers and block ciphers
    Security against chosen plaintext/ciphertext attacks
    Hash functions
  • Asymmetric cryptography
    Discrete logarithm, decision Diffie-Hellman
    Factoring, RSA problem
    Key exchange
    Digital signatures
    Public-key encryption
    The random oracle methodology
  • Other topics possibly covered:
    Zero-knowledge proofs
    Secret sharing
    Yao’s garbling circuits