| Detailed information |
| 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
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| 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.
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| Criteria for evaluation |
depending on the number of participants either oral or written tests and homeworks
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| Methods |
blackboard talks; exercises to be discussed in the tutorials
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| 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'.
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| Changing subject? |
No |
| Earlier variants |
They also cover the requirements of the curriculum (from - to)
TM1WJVOKRYP: VL Cryptography (2003S-2020S)
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