KMI/KRY Cryptography

Lecturer: Eduard Bartl
Lecture: 3 hours/week + exercise 1 hour/week
Credits: 5
Winter semester
Form of course completion: credit course, exam

• History of cryptography.
• Classical symmetric-key methods.
• Cryptoanalysis of classical symmetric-key methods.
• Perfect cryptography.
• Theoretical aspects.
• DES and AES.
• Introduction to asymmetric-key methods.
• Asymmetric-key method based on discreet logarithm.
• Asymmetric-key method based on knapsack problem.0. Asymmetric-key method based on elliptic curves.
• RSA.
• Cryptographic hash functions.
• Digital signature.
• Zero-knowledge proofs and other interesting topics.