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[ 201ZATHCRGU20 ] UE Cryptography

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1,5 ECTS B3 - Bachelor's programme 3. year Mathematics Friedrich Pillichshammer 1 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
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Original study plan Bachelor's programme Technical Mathematics 2023W
Objectives Introduction to relevant number theoretic results and methods as well as overview of cryptography, in particular, public key cryptography
Subject After a brief introduction to number theory we discuss selected results from cryptography. In particular we discuss the most important public key schemes, RSA and Diffie-Hellman key-exchange, algorithms for attacking the integer factoring problem and the discrete logarithm problem as well as primality tests.
Criteria for evaluation depending on the number of participants either oral or written tests and homeworks
Methods blackboard talks; exercises to be discussed in the tutorials
Language English and French
Study material Lecture notes are provided. For further reading we recommend in particular Chapter 2 of the textbook of H. Niederreiter and A. Winterhof: 'Applied Number Theory' as well as N. Koblitz: 'A course in number theory and cryptography‘ and Chapter 2 of W. Willems: 'Codierungstheorie und Kryptographie'.
Changing subject? No
Earlier variants They also cover the requirements of the curriculum (from - to)
TM1WJUEKRYP: UE Cryptography (2003S-2020S)
On-site course
Maximum number of participants 25
Assignment procedure Direct assignment