Seminar Advanced Topics in Cryptography

This course is listed

• in Aachen RWTHonline as Seminar Advanced Topics in Cryptography,
• in Bonn Basis as MA-INF 1209 - Seminar Advanced Topics in Cryptography.

Lecture

Michael Nüsken

Time & Place

Please, send an email if you are interested in this seminar.

• Tuesday, 14⁰⁰-16⁰⁰, digital seminar room.

Kick-off meeting: Tuesday, 3 November 2020, 14⁰⁰, digital seminar room.

Contents

Research front at the cryptographic preprint service ePrint.

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.

Schedule

• 08.12.2020 Chan Wing Yin.
  Verifying Terelius-Wikström Mix Nets in Electronic Voting.
  Slides (PDF). Report (PDF).
  Based on
  • Thomas Haines and Rajeev Gore and Bhavesh Sharma (2020).
    Did you mix me? Formally Verifying Verifiable Mix Nets in Electronic Voting.
    ePrint 2020/1114.
• 15.12.2020 Dorian Reineccius.
  How to break binary elliptic curves.
  Slides (PDF). Report (PDF).
  Based on
  • Gustavo Banegas and Daniel J. Bernstein and Iggy van Hoof and Tanja Lange (2020).
    Concrete quantum cryptanalysis of binary elliptic curves.
    ePrint 2020/1296. 
  • About record executions of Shor's algorithm @crypto.stackexchange.
• 22.12.2020 Yat Wai Wong.
  Secure Messaging with Ratcheted Authentication .
  Slides (PDF). Report (PDF).
  Based on
  • Benjamin Dowling & Britta Hale (2020).
    There Can Be No Compromise: The Necessity of Ratcheted Authentication in Secure Messaging.
    ePrint 2020/541.

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.
  Students have to register this course in RWTHonline.
• Master in Computer Science at University of Bonn: MA-INF 1209.
  4 CP.
  Students have to register this course in BASIS.