Selected Topics in Cryptology- Part II (May-August 2011)

This web page is regarding only the second 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 work1,    Home work2

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

14th June	Introduction: Perfect secrecy	Chapter  2 of Katz’s book
16^th June	Pseudorandom functions and Pseudorandom Permutations	Notes by Rogaway and Bellare.
21st June	Pseudorandom functions and Pseudorandom Permutations
23^rd June.	Pseudorandom Functions and Pseudorandom Permutations: PRP/PRF switching lemma, Feistel Network
28^th June	Symmetric Encryption Schemes	Notes by Bellare and Rogaway
30^th June	Symmetric Encryption Schemes
5^th July	Message Authentication	Chapter 4 of Katz Lindell Book
7^th July	Some block cipher modes of operations	Link to some relevant papers
12^th July
14^th July