TMA4155 Introduction to Cryptography - Fall 2013

The exam room: Most of you will take the exam in Storhall del 2 , H3 (the other campus); only one will be in Datalab 524.

Here is a list of topics that you should have learned from this course (i.e. relevant to the exam):
0.Number theory (Module theory and exponentiation, e.g. GCD/CRT/Fermat's little theorm/Euler function/primitive root; Matrix calculation)
1.Classical cryptos (shift/affine/Vigenere/substitution/Hill/LFSR/One time pad)
2.Public Key crptos (RSA/ElGamal and their digital signature version; primality test, attacks on them, D-log)
3.Other topics (basics of Hash function/Birthday attack on signatures/Basic security protocol/Secret sharing schemes)

P.S. I will be in my office (826), on request (by email in advance), to answer quesions on Nov.26-27 and Dec.3.

The assistant (Øystein) is available for questions on Wednesday 2013-11-27 and Thursday 2013-11-28 at 13:15-15:00 (the usual lecture times). You will find him in either room 822 or room 829 on the 8. floor of Sentralbygg 2.

Main Book: Introduction to Cryptography with Coding Theory, 2nd edition, by Wade Trappe and Lawrence Washington.
Supplement: Handbook of Applied Cryptography by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone.

Links

• Main page
• Lecture plan
• Exercises
• Past exams