Module CS4702-KP06

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

normally each year in the summer semester

Credit points

6

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Master Robotics and Autonomous Systems 2019, optional subject, Additionally recognized elective module
• Master Entrepreneurship in Digital Technologies 2020, advanced module, specific
• 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

Classes and lectures:

• Computer Security (practical course, 3 SWS)
• Computer Security (lecture, 2 SWS)

Workload:

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

Contents of teaching:

• Applied cryptography in systems and protocols: Overview of common methods and their applications
• Efficient and secure implementation of common crypto procedures: multiple-precision arithmetic, efficient exponentiation, constant time algorithms etc.
• Physical implementation attacks and countermeasures: Error injection attacks, passive physical attacks such as SPA/DPA and timing attacks, modern inference methods and associated cryptanalysis methods, classes of protective measures
• Virtualization security and microarchitecture attacks: security concepts in the operating system and hypervisor, microarchitecture attacks such as cache attacks, spectre, etc., measures to restore system security
• Trusted computing and hardware-assisted system security: How TPMs, Secure Elements and Trusted Execution work environments, basics and cryptographic techniques, design basics for secure systems

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• The students can demonstrate a deep understanding of cryptographic methods and their applications in communication systems.
• They can construct secure and efficient cryptographic primitives and implement them securely in computer systems.
• They can explain methods and algorithms for efficient multiple-precision arithmetic.
• They can perform basic side-channel attacks on systems with physical access or shared systems with code execution rights.
• They can implement protection against specific physical attacks for cryptographic primitives.
• They can evaluate the security of existing primitives.

Grading through:

• Viva Voce or test
• written homework

Requires:

• Cybersecurity (CS2250-KP04)

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Eisenbarth

Teacher:

• Institute for IT Security
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Eisenbarth

Literature:

• S. Mangard, E. Oswald & T. Popp : Power analysis attacks: Revealing the secrets of smart cards Vol. 31, Springer Science & Business Media, 2008
• D. Stinson : Cryptography: Theory and Practice 4th ed., CRC Press, 2018
• : Recent literature

Language:

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

Notes:

Last Updated:

06.01.2025