CRYPTOGRAPHY

Note that this course is cross-listed with the ELTE University and is held on their campus. Its schedule is set by ELTE. Time and location will be available by the beginning of February

Instructor: Dr. Viktória VILLÁNYI

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Topics to be covered:

• Perfect secrecy,
• One-Time Pad,
• limitation of perfect secrecy,
• computational approach to cryptography,
• construction of pseudorandom objects,
• secure encryption schemes,
• chosen-plaintext attack,
• chosen-ciphertext attack,
• message authentication codes and hash functions,
• Merkle-Damgaard construction,
• one-way functions,
• hard-core predicate,
• hybrid encryption,
• RSA encryption,
• trapdoor permutations,
• Goldwasser-Micali encryption scheme,
• Rabin encryption scheme,
• Paillier encryption scheme,
• random oracle model