CS60088 Foundations of Cryptography Spring 2014, L-T-P: 3-1-0

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Schedule

Instuctor     Abhijit Das
Timing     Slot C [MON (09:30–10:30), WED (07:30–09:30), THU (09:30–10:30, Tutorial)]
Venue     Room No CSE–120
Teaching Assistants     Dhiman Saha, Abhrajit Sengupta.

Notices and Announcements

16-Dec-2013
I am going to follow Wenbo Mao's book which covers Topics 1–5 of the syllabus. If time permits, Topic 6 will be covered from Katz and Lindell's book.

Tentative Coverage

  1. Background and Basic Assumptions
    Cryptographic primitives (encryption, signatures, authentication), notion and need for security proofs, probabilistic polynomial-time algorithms, polynomial-time indistinguishability, trapdoor one-way functions and suspected candidates (IFP, DLP, DHP, RSA, SQRTP, QRP), bit security of the trapdoor one-way functions.
  2. Introduction to Formal Security
    Textbook encryption algorithms (RSA, Rabin, ElGamal), insecurity of textbook algorithms under active attacks, notion of semantic security and message indistinguishability (IND-CPA), semantically secure encryption algorithms (Goldwasser-Micali, ElGamal, cryptographically secure pseudo-random bit generator), security against chosen-ciphertext attacks (IND-CCA and IND-CCA2), attacks under message non-malleability (NM-CPA, NM-CCA, NM-CCA2), relations between indistinguishability and non-malleability.
  3. Provably Secure Public-Key Cryptosystems
    Optimal asymmetric encryption padding (OAEP), Cramer-Shoup cryptosystem, use of random oracles in security proofs.
  4. Data Integrity
    MAC and cryptographic hash functions, digital signatures, textbook versions (RSA, Rabin, ElGamal), signature forgery, adaptive chosen-message attack, provably secure digital signature schemes, forking reduction, heavy-row reduction, probabilistic signature schemes, secure variants of ElGamal, RSA and Rabin signatures.
  5. Cryptographic Protocols
    Needham-Schroeder and Woo-Lam authentication protocols, Bellare-Rogaway security model, interactive proof protocols, challenge-response protocols, zero-knowledge proofs, Schnorr and Fiat-Shamir protocols, non-interactive zero knowledge.
  6. Symmetric Cryptography
    One-way functions, hard-core predicates, pseudo-random permutations, construction of pseudo-random generators, Luby-Rackoff construction, construction of pseudo-random and strong pseudo-random functions, equivalence of symmetric encryption and MAC with one-way functions.

Books and References

  1. Wenbo Mao, Modern Cryptography: Theory and Practice, first edition, Pearson Education, 2004. [Buy from flipkart]
  2. Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell, Introduction to Modern Cryptography, Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, 2007.
  3. Hans Delfs and Helmut Knebl, Introduction to Cryptography: Principles and Applications, second edition, Springer-Verlag, 2007.
  4. Shafi Goldwasser and Mihir Bellare, Lecture Notes on Cryptography, online document, 2008.
    [This is an adaptation of Phillip Rogaway and Shafi Goldwasser's online lecture notes: Introduction to Modern Cryptography, 2005.]
  5. Oded Goldreich, The Foundations of Cryptography, Volume 1 and Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 2001 and 2004.
    [Low priced Indian editions are available.]

Tests

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