ITC8240 Cryptography

Course information

Code: ITC8240 Cryptography

ECTS: 6

Assessment: examination

Lecturers/Instructors:

• Ahto Buldas ahto dot buldas at taltech dot ee
• Aleksandr Lenin aleksandr dot lenin at taltech dot ee

Announcements

• Mathematics test results: MathTestResults_2020_Fall.pdf.

Lectures: Every Thursday 16:15-17:45 in ICO-316 or remotely, as listed below:

• Sep 3: ICO-316. Introduction # Introduction to the course.pdf
• Sep 10: Remotely. Simple ciphers and attacks # Simple ciphers and attacks.pdf # Elementary number theory.pdf
• Sep 17: Remotely. Attacks against classical ciphers # Attacks against classical ciphers.pdf
• Sep 24: Remotely. Attacks against classical ciphers.
• Oct 1: Remotely. Theory of unbreakable ciphers. # unbreakable-ciphers.pdf
• Oct 8: Remotely. Theory of unbreakable ciphers (continues).
• Oct 15: Remotely. Key Establishment.
• Oct 22: Remotely. Limited Adversaries I.
• Oct 29: Remotely. Limited Adversaries II.
• Nov 5: Remotely. RSA Cryptosystem.
• Nov 12: No Lecture. The video of RSA Cryptosystem II. will be recorded off-line and will be available in Moodle by Monday Nov 16.

Course materials:

• Moodle page: https://moodle.taltech.ee/course/view.php?id=30639
• Student enrollment key: ITC8240_2020_FALL