Module CS4210-KP06, CS4210

Cryptographic Protocols (KrypProto)


Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

normally each year in the summer semester

Credit points

6

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

  • Master Media Informatics 2020, optional subject, computer science
  • Master Medical Informatics 2019, optional subject, ehealth / infomatics
  • Master IT-Security 2019, optional subject, IT Security and Privacy
  • Master Medical Informatics 2014, optional subject, ehealth / infomatics

Classes and lectures:

  • Cryptographic Protocols (lecture, 3 SWS)
  • Cryptographic Protocols (exercise, 1.5 SWS)

Workload:

  • 85 hours private studies and exercises
  • 20 hours exam preparation
  • 75 hours in-classroom work

Contents of teaching:

  • Complex cryptographic protocols, security analyses
  • Anonymity and Privacy, Private Computation and Information Retrieval, Differential Privacy
  • Quantum Cryptographie
  • Steganography, digital seals and watermarks
  • secure e-commerce, electronic money, online elections

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

  • The students can reason about cryptographic methods and their application in communication systems.
  • The are able to select suitable security primitives for given applications and to implement them.
  • The can conduct a security analysis of communication protocols.
  • They can designate the weaknesses of real systems and evaluate them.

Grading through:

  • Oral examination

Responsible for this module:

Literature:

  • Lindell : Tutorials on the Foundations of Cryptography Springer 2017
  • J. Katz, Y. Lindell : Introduction to Modern Cryptography CRC Press 2014
  • Goldreich : Fundamentals of Cryptography Cambridge Univ. Press 2004
  • I. Cox, M. Miller, J. Bloom, J. Fridrich, T. Kalkerm : Digital Watermarking and Steganography Morgan Kaufmann 2008
  • Dwork, Roth : The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy 2014

Language:

  • English, except in case of only German-speaking participants

Notes:

Admission requirements for taking the module:
- None (the competencies under

Last Updated:

02.10.2023