--- begin forwarded text Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 20:00:31 -0500 (EST) From: Christof Paar <christof@ece.WPI.EDU> To: "WPI.Crypto.Seminar":; cc: DCSB <dcsb@ai.mit.edu> Subject: Advanced Crypto Graduate Course Sender: bounce-dcsb@ai.mit.edu Reply-To: Christof Paar <christof@ece.WPI.EDU> Please find below an announcement for the Crypto II graduate course. I'll be happy to answer any question about the course contents. For registration questions, please contact WPI's Graduate Admission Office at "gao@wpi.edu". Regards, Christof *********************************************************************** Christof Paar, Assistant Professor Cryptography and Information Security (CRIS) Group ECE Dept., WPI, 100 Institute Rd., Worcester, MA 01609, USA fon: (508) 831 5061 email: christof@ece.wpi.edu fax: (508) 831 5491 www: http://ee.wpi.edu/People/faculty/cxp.html ***********************************************************************
WORKSHOP ON CRYPTOGRAPHIC HARDWARE AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS (CHES) <<< WPI, August 12 & 13, 1999 <<< check http://ece.wpi.edu/Research/crypt/ches <<<
------------------------------------------------------------------------ EE 579R, ADVANCED TOPICS IN CRYPTOGRAPHY Spring `99 Semester WPI, Thursdays, 5:30-8:30pm, AK219 First day of class: January 21 COURSE DESCRIPTION The course is a continuation of EE 578/CS 578, Cryptography and Data Security. It will provide a deeper insight into several areas of cryptology which are of great practical and theoretical importance. One focus of the course is on techniques for efficient software and (to a somewhat lesser extend) hardware implementations for public-key algorithms. The second focus is on attacks against public-key schemes, which is fundamental for an in-depth understanding of the choice of practical algorithms. Many techniques will be introduced which are usually only treated in the research literature. SYLLABUS Week 1: Introduction Overview on practical public-key algorithms and efficient implementation techniques. Efficient implementation of RSA: The Chinese Remainder Theorem. Week 2: Selected public-key algorithms Review of the generalized discrete logarithm problem and elliptic curve cryptosystems. Week 3: Efficient Implementation Introduction to long number arithmetic. Week 4: Efficient Implementation Fast modular reduction algorithms. Week 5: Efficient Implementation Fast inversion algorithms. Week 6: Efficient Implementation Efficient exponentiation algorithms. Week 7 Midterm Exam Week 8: Attacks Attacking DL systems: Baby-step giant-step method and Pollard's rho method. Week 9: Attacks Attacking DL systems: Parallelization of Pollard's rho method. Week 10 Topics TBA, depending on student interest. Possibilities are: Index-calculus attack, differential cryptanalysis, correlation attacks, modern block cipher design, Galois field arithmetic. Week 11 as week 10 lecture Week 12: Student presentations Week 13: Student presentations Week 14 Final Exam. TEXTBOOKS A. Menezes, P. van Oorschot, S. Vanstone: Handbook of Applied Cryptography. CRC Press. (primary, mandatory) D. Stinson, Cryptography: Theory and Practice. CRC Press, 1995. (recommended) PREREQUISITES The knowledge of the material of EE 578/CS 578, Cryptography and Data Security, is assumed (in particular with respect to public-key algorithms). In addition, some experience with the C programming language is required. *********************************************************************** Christof Paar, Assistant Professor Cryptography and Information Security (CRIS) Group ECE Dept., WPI, 100 Institute Rd., Worcester, MA 01609, USA fon: (508) 831 5061 email: christof@ece.wpi.edu fax: (508) 831 5491 www: http://ee.wpi.edu/People/faculty/cxp.html ***********************************************************************
WORKSHOP ON CRYPTOGRAPHIC HARDWARE AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS (CHES) <<< WPI, August 12 & 13, 1999 <<< check http://ece.wpi.edu/Research/crypt/ches <<<
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