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
Gerhard Schabhüser

Time & Place

To participate please apply by email.

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

Kick-off meeting: Monday, 27 October 2025, 16⁰⁰, b-it 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. Please send them here. You then present your chosen paper in a session together with necessary background and deliver a report.

Schedule

• Monday, 2026 January 12. Katharina Kaus.
  Title tba.
  based on:
  • Gildas Avoine, Xavier Carpent & Diane Leblanc-Albarel (2025). In the Vault, But Not Safe: Exploring the Threat of Covert Password Manager Providers. ePrint 2025/1278.
• Monday, 2026 January 26. Björn Odijk.
  Title tba.
  based on:
  • Foteini Baldimtsi, Rishab Goyal & Aayush Yadav (2025). Batched & Non-interactive Blind Signatures from Lattices. ePrint 2025/1771.
• Monday, 2026 February 02. Frederik Böcker.
  Title tba.
  based on:
  • tba.
• tbd. Franziska Rau.
  Title tba.
  based on:
  • Andrei Alexei (2025). Key-Recovery Side-Channel Attack on the Berlekamp-Massey Decoding Algorithm in the Classic McEliece KEM. ePrint 2025/2043.

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.