Introduction to Cryptology - MATH/CMSC 456
Fall 2017
Staff
Instructor: Samuel Ranellucci, samuel@umd.edu
Office: 3269 A.V. Williams Building, Thurday 1:pm-4:00pm.
TA: Aaron Hall, amh620@gmail.com; Monday Chen Zhao, Tuesday 1:00pm-3pm chenz@cs.umd.edu
Goal of course
The primary goal of this class is to enable students to understand cryptographic protocols and evaluate their security.
In order to achieve this goal, the students will be instructed to understand
- Formal definitions of security`
- Cryptographic primitives
- Cryptographic protocols
- Cryptographic hardness assumptions
- Concept of reduction
Important information
Course slides and powerpoints
| Section |
| Introduction to cryptology |
PDF
| PPT
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| Perfect security |
PDF
| PPT
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Lessons from history |
PDF
| PPT
| Symmetric-key encryption |
PDF
| PPT
| Symmetric-key encryption (part 2) |
PDF
| PPT
| Block_cipher_encryption_modes |
PDF
| PPT
| Computational authentication |
PDF
| PPT
| Authenticated Encryption |
PDF
| PPT
| Hash Function |
PDF
| PPT
| Group theory |
PDF
| PPT
| Homework 2 solutions, Group theory (part 2) |
PDF
| PPT
| Quiz 2, Computational assumptions |
PDF
| PPT
| public_key_part_1 |
PDF
| PPT
| public_key_part_2 |
PDF
| PPT
| Identification scheme |
PDF
| PPT
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Homework
Homework #1 | solutions
| Homework #2solutions |