This course gives a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical foundations of modern cryptography. Students will learn how security properties are formalized and how to prove that a certain cryptographic scheme fulfills a certain property.    

• Information-theoretic security
• Computational security
• Private key encryption
• Message authentication codes
• Hash functions
• Public key cryptography
• Digital signature schemes

ECTS Breakdown

24h lecture
48h self-study
3h exam

Here you will find all slides, homework and solutions for the second part of the lecture.

https://danielslamanig.info/ModernCrypto18

Here you will find all slides, homework and solutions for the first part of the lecture.

http://pub.ist.ac.at/crypto/ModernCrypto18.html

A midterm exam and a final exam, on the first and second part of the course respectively. In order to pass, students have to take at least 50% of points in both. There will be a retake exam at the end of the winter break.