Course type: Lecture

Value in ECTS: 3

Academic year 2013/2014 - Spring semester

Overview of the course
Goals: Introduction to Cryptography - Theory, Software and Hardware Breveglieri – Math background, basic definitions, simple starting examples of cryptosystems and one complex example (ECC); Paar – Practical Symmetric and asymmetric cryptosystems, focusing on practical algorithms, algorithmic variants, implementations (HW and/or SW), performances.

Contents

• Historical Ciphers Permutation cipher Key lengths and security of symmetric algorithms Problem solving
• Practical Block Ciphers I: DES and 3DES History Internal design Remarks on hardware and software implementation Problem solving
• Practical Block Ciphers II: AES History Finite fields for AES - recalls Internal design Remarks on hardware and software implementation Problem solving
• Diffie-Hellmann Key Exchange Theory Implementation techniques Problem solving
• Digital Signatures Principles RSA Digital Signature Software implementation issues Problem solving