Selected Topics in Cryptology- Part I (May-August 2009)

This web page is regarding only the first part of the course.

Instructor: Dr. Debrup Chakraborty (debrup(AT)cs.cinvestav.mx)

References: 1) Introduction to Modern Cryptology- Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell
2) Notes by M. Bellare and P. Rogaway (the links to the notes are in the schedule)

Classes: Tuesday and Thursday from 10:00-12:00

Grading Policies: Two home works.

Home works: home work 1

home work 2

Schedule (tentative, we shall fill the details as we progress)

12th May	Introduction: Notion of security, informational theoretic vs. computational security.	Read chapter 1 of Katz’s book.
14th May	Pseudorandom functions and Pseudorandom Permutations	Notes by Rogaway and Bellare.
19^th May.	Pseudorandom functions and Pseudorandom Permutations
21^st May.	Symmetric encryption	Notes by Rogaway and Bellare.
26^th May.	Symmetric Encryption
28^th May	Symmetric Encryption
2^nd June	Message authentication