Cryptography

Objectives

Introduction to Cryptography

General characterization

Code

9977

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

Isabel Maria Oitavem Fonseca da Rocha Kahle

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - Available soon

Teaching language

Português

Prerequisites

---

Bibliography

Cryptography, information theory, and error-correction, de Aiden Bruen and Mario Forcinito, Wiley-interscience.

An introduction to Mathematical Criptography, de Hoffstein, Pipher and Silverman, Springer.

Teaching method

Available soon

Evaluation method

The student must attend to 2/3 of the given lectures.

 

Evaluation is based on one seminar per student (presentation, discussion and report) and one test. The seminar contributs with 80% to the final grade, and the test contributs with 20%.

Grades greater or equal than 10 points lead to approval.

Whenever the grade is more or equal than 18 points, an extra examination might be required. If the student declines it, the final grade of 17 points will be given.

Subject matter

Introduction

Symmetric ciphers

Asymmetric ciphers make a first appearance

Diffie-Hellman key exchange

Integer factorization and RSA

Elliptic curve cryptography

The evolution of public key cryptography

Programs

Programs where the course is taught: