Lab Cryptography

This course is listed

• in Aachen RWTHonline as Lab Cryptography,
• in Bonn Basis as MA-INF 1316 Lab Cryptography.

Presentations

• 2023-12-04 16:15-18:00. Paul Berners, Emre Yalcinoglu & Tobias Weißberg.
  Lab final talk: Homomorphically Encrypting BERT.
  Slides (PDF). Report (PDF)
  Based on
  • Tianyu Chen, Hangbo Bao, Shaohan Huang, Li Dong, Binxing Jiao, Daxin Jiang, Haoyi Zhou,
    Jianxin Li, and Furu Wei (2022). THE-X: Privacy-preserving transformer inference with homomorphic
    encryption. arXiv:2206.00216.

Contents

A lab on cryptography shall carry one topic to a greater depth than ever possible in a course or seminar.

Possible topics include:

• Security reductions, theoretical and automated.
• Machine learning on encrypted data.
• ...

Lecture

Michael Nüsken

Time & Place

If you want to participate apply by mail.

• Monday, 16⁰⁰-18⁰⁰, tba / digital seminar room.
• Friday, 10⁰⁰-12⁰⁰, tba / digital seminar room.

Kick-off meeting: Monday, 3 April 2023, 16⁰⁰, b-it 2.122 / digital seminar room.

Prerequisites

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

Allocation

Lab.

• Master in Media Informatics: PR, 9 CP.
  Students have to register this course in RWTHonline.
• Master in Computer Science at University of Bonn: MA-INF 1316. 9 CP.
  Students have to register this course with POS/BASIS.