Selected Topics in Cryptology- Part III (May-August 2010)

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

Home works: Home work 1

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

15th July	Introduction: Notion of security, informational theoretic vs. computational security.	Chapter 1 and 2 of Katz’s book
20^th July	Pseudorandom functions and Pseudorandom Permutations	Notes by Rogaway and Bellare.
22^nd July	Pseudorandom functions and Pseudorandom Permutations
27^th July.	Symmetric encryption	Notes by Rogaway and Bellare.
29^th July	Symmetric Encryption
3^rd Aug
5^th Aug
10th Aug	No class (LatinCrypt 2010)
12th Aug
17th Aug