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.
• alternatively: Friday, 10⁰⁰-12⁰⁰, digital seminar room.

Kick-off meeting: Tuesday, 19 October 2021, 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

• Tuesday, 2021-11-30 14⁰⁰. Philipp Holzmann.
  Lab: About securing federated learning.
• Friday, 2021-12-10 10⁰⁰. Lukas Kempf.
  An introduction to mulitlinear maps and theirs attack using the example of CLT13.
  Slides (PDF). Report (PDF).
  Based on
  • Jung Hee Cheon, Kyoohyung Han, Changmin Lee, Hansol Ryu & Damien Stehle (2014).
    Cryptanalysis on the Multilinear Map over the Integers and its Related Problems.
    ePrint 2014/906.
  • Jung Hee Cheon, Pierre-Alain Fouque, Changmin Lee, Brice Minaud & Hansol Ryu (2016).
    Cryptanalysis of the New CLT Multilinear Map over the Integers.
    ePrint 2016/135.
  • Jean-Sebastien Coron & Luca Notarnicola (2019).
    Cryptanalysis of CLT13 Multilinear Maps with Independent Slots.
    ePrint 2019/309.
• Tuesday, 2021-12-14 14⁰⁰. Janik Schug & Ziyu Li.
  Lab intro talk: Secure face verification using FHE.
• Friday, 2022-01-14 10⁰⁰. Janik Schug.
  Programmable Bootstrapping - Evaluating deep neural networks.
  Slides (PDF). Report (PDF).
  Based on
  • Marc Joye (2021).
    Guide to Fully Homomorphic Encryption over the [Discretized] Torus.
    ePrint 2021/1402.
  • Ilaria Chillotti, Marc Joye & Pascal Paillier (2021).
    Programmable Bootstrapping Enables Efficient Homomorphic Inference of Deep Neural Networks.
    ePrint 2021/091.
• Tuesday, 2022-01-25 14⁰⁰. Olsa Nela.
  Automated Detection of Side Channels in Cryptographic Protocols.
  Slides (PDF). Report (PDF).
  Based on
  • Jan Peter Drees, Pritha Gupta, Eyke Hüllermeier, Tibor Jager, Alexander Konze, Claudia Priesterjahn, Arunselvan Ramaswamy & Juraj Somorovsky (2021).
    Automated Detection of Side Channels in Cryptographic Protocols: DROWN the ROBOTs!
    ePrint 2021/591.
• Friday, 2022-01-28 10⁰⁰-12⁰⁰. Prinon Das.
  Secure aggregation reloaded.
  Slides (PDF). Report (PDF).
  Based on
  • Hossein Fereidooni, Samuel Marchal, Markus Miettinen, Azalia Mirhoseini, Helen Möllering, Thien Duc Nguyen, Phillip Rieger, Ahmad Reza Sadeghi, Thomas Schneider, Hossein Yalame & Shaza Zeitouni (2021).
    SAFELearn: Secure Aggregation for private FEderated Learning.
    ePrint 2021/386.
• Tuesday, 2022-02-01 14⁰⁰. Janik Schug & Ziyu Li.
  Lab final talk: Secure face verification using FHE.
  Slides (PDF). Report (PDF).
  Based on
  • See report.

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.