Seminar Advanced Topics in Cryptography

This course is listed in Aachen Campus as Seminar Advanced Topics in Cryptography, in Bonn Basis as MA-INF 1209 Seminar Advanced Topics in Cryptography.

Contents

Research front at ePrint, selected papers.

Each participiant suggests three papers from ePrint, one of which is chosen. You then present your chosen paper in a session together with necessary background and deliver a report.

Lecture

Michael Nüsken

Time & Place

• Thursday, 10⁰⁰-12⁰⁰, b-it 1.25 (meetingg room).

First meeting: Thursday, 26 October 2017.

The time may be adjusted.

Schedule

• 11.01.2018 Jakob Nussbaumer.
  Lab Report, tba.
• 25.01.2018 Antonia Herschel.
  ROCA: Vulnerable RSA generation.
  • Matus Nemec, Marek Sys, Petr Svenda, Dusan Klinec & Vashek Matyas (2017). The Return of Coppersmith’s Attack: Practical Factorization of Widely Used RSA Moduli. Preprint (PDF).
  • GI Radar 201 (2017). Themen im Fokus.
  • Heise (2017). Hunderttausende Infineon-Sicherheits-Chips weisen RSA-Schwachstelle auf.
• 01.02.2018 Eike Stadtländer.
  Adam Everspaugh and Kenneth Paterson and Thomas Ristenpart and Sam Scott (2017). Key Rotation for Authenticated Encryption. ePrint 2017/527.
• 14.02.2018 Dominik Bunz.
  Paul Rösler and Christian Mainka and Jörg Schwenk (2017). More is Less: How Group Chats Weaken the Security of Instant Messengers Signal, WhatsApp, and Threema. ePrint 2017/713.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of cryptography and fast understanding of mathematical and computer science topics is required.

Allocation

2 SWS.

• Master in Media Informatics: Computer and Communication Technology.
  4 ECTS credits.
• Master in Computer Science at University of Bonn: MA-INF 1209.
  4 CP.
  Students have to register this course with POS/BASIS.