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

To participate please apply by email.

• Monday, 16⁰⁰-18⁰⁰, 0.107 or/and digital seminar room.

Kick-off meeting: Monday, 23 October 2023, 16⁰⁰, 0.107 or/and 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

• 2023-12-04 16:15-18:00. Paul Berners, Emre Yalcinoglu & Tobias Weißberg.
  Lab final talk: Homomorphically Encrypting BERT.
  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.
• 2024-01-15 16:15-18:00. Annika Friederichs.
  Post-Quantum Fully Homomorphic Encryption with Group Ring Homomorphisms..
  Slides (PDF). Report (PDF).
  Based on
  • Christopher Leonardi & Maya Gusak (2023). Post-Quantum Fully Homomorphic Encryption with Group Ring Homomorphisms. ePrint 2023/1450.
• 2024-01-22 16:15-18:00. Jan-Niklas Sohn.
  tba.
  Slides (PDF). Report (PDF).
  Based on

  • Philipp G. Haselwarter, Benjamin Salling Hvass, Lasse Letager Hansen, Théo Winterhalter, Catalin Hritcu & Bas Spitters (2023). The Last Yard: Foundational End-to-End Verification of High-Speed Cryptography. ePrint 2023/185.

• 2024-01-29 Cancelled.

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.