Usr6 Posted February 10, 2014 Report Posted February 10, 2014 About the CourseCryptography is an indispensable tool for protecting information in computer systems. This course explains the inner workings of cryptographic primitives and how to correctly use them. Students will learn how to reason about the security of cryptographic constructions and how to apply this knowledge to real-world applications. The course begins with a detailed discussion of how two parties who have a shared secret key can communicate securely when a powerful adversary eavesdrops and tampers with traffic. We will examine many deployed protocols and analyze mistakes in existing systems. The second half of the course discusses public-key techniques that let two or more parties generate a shared secret key. We will cover the relevant number theory and discuss public-key encryption and basic key-exchange. Throughout the course students will be exposed to many exciting open problems in the field.The course will include written homeworks and programming labs. The course is self-contained, however it will be helpful to have a basic understanding of discrete probability theory.Syllabus week 1Background and overview.One-time encryption using stream ciphers.Semantic security.week 2Block ciphers and pseudorandom functions.Chosen plaintext security and modes of operation.The DES and AES block ciphers.week 3Message integrity. CBC-MAC, HMAC, PMAC, and CW-MAC.Collision resistant hashing.week 4Authenticated encryption. CCM, GCM, TLS, and IPsec.Key derivation functions.Odds and ends: deterministic encryption, non-expanding encryption, and format preserving encryption.week 5Basic key exchange: Diffie-Hellman, RSA, and Merkle puzzles.A crash course in computational number theory.Number theoretic hardness assumptions.week 6Public key encryption.Trapdoor permutations and RSA.The ElGamal system and variants.Online video: https://class.coursera.org/crypto-preview/lectureTorrent: Download Coursera / Stanford University - Cryptography Torrent - KickassTorrents Quote
