DD2448 Foundations of Cryptography (7.5hp)

The content of the course will be similar to last year. All information on this homepage and all handouts of the course will be in English. Lectures will be given in Swedish if all students can follow the lectures in Swedish, and otherwise the lectures will be given in English. Students may hand in homeworks written in either Swedish or English, but if the lectures are given in English, then students should be ready to give their oral presentations in English as well.

Please have a look at the homepage of last year and in particular the result of the student poll on the course in 2010.

ATTENTION! Johan Håstad will give a seminar course, Seminars on Theoretical Computer Science, semteo11, in cryptography that will treat some of the subjects covered in this course in more depth and introduce some advanced notions and problems. I strongly recommend this course if you are interested in learning more about cryptography and cryptographic protocols.

News in Reverse Chronological Order

• 110318: You can now reserve a time for your oral exam!
• 110228: Lowered the requirement on B-points for grade E from 60 to 40. You still need to collect at least 60 points (B+H) from the homeworks. The only difference is that you may replace up to 20 B-points by H-points.
• 110228: Posted Homework 2.
• 110209: Added hint for problem of Homework 1.
• 110208: Shahram Kahzaei will give part of the lecture Thursday, March 10, and explain how to attack a reduced-round version of CubeHash.
• 110203: Everybody is of course welcome to listen to the talks of other students.
• 110126: The lecture tomorrow, Thursday, January 27, is CANCELLED!
• 110125: The ciphertexts have now been sent. If you did not receive one, then please email me. Due to the delay, the deadline for Homework 1 is delayed by one day.
• 110124: Homework 1 has been posted.
• 110124: The lecture for today is moved to E31. We are still working on moving the rest of the lectures.
• 110121: We can probably get a larger lecture room for Thursday next week, but on Monday, January 24, the lecture is in E32 as scheduled. Changes to the schedule will be posted on this page, and here, and all registered will get an email.
• 110114: There is now a course description.
• 110114: Mats Näslund agreed to give guest lecture.
• 110114: There is now a schedule.