CAS 762 / Cryptography

3 unit(s)

M. Soltys

An introduction to cryptography: the course will cover public key cryptography based on the discrete logarithm problem, factoring, ellipitic curves and lattices. Thus, it will examine the Diffie-Hellman and El Gamalpkc, RSA as well as lattice-based cryptographic schemes. Other topics will be key-exchange and authentication, identification, schemes, commitment schemes, electronic elections and digital cash, as well as provably secure encryption.