The course presents a selection of hot research topics in cryptography. The choice of topics varies and may include provable security, interactive proofs, zero-knowledge protocols, secret sharing, secure multi-party computation, e-voting, etc.
Objective
Indroduction to a very active research area with many gems and paradoxical results. Spark interest in fundamental problems.
Content
The course presents a selection of hot research topics in cryptography. The choice of topics varies and may include provable security, interactive proofs, zero-knowledge protocols, secret sharing, secure multi-party computation, e-voting, etc.
Lecture notes
the lecture notes are in German, but they are not required as the entire course material is documented also in other course material (in english).
Prerequisites / Notice
A basic understanding of fundamental cryptographic concepts (as taught for example in the course Information Security or in the course Cryptography Foundations) is useful, but not required.
Performance assessment
Performance assessment information (valid until the course unit is held again)