Cryptography Learning Seminar FA 2018

The seminar will meet Mondays and Fridays 11:00 -- 11:50am in ENR2 S395. This semester's seminar will focus on introducing standard algorithms and issues in Cryptography.

Here are some references relevant to this year's seminar:

"A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography" by Koblitz

"Algebraic Aspects of Cryptography" by Koblitz

"An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography" by Hoffstein, Pipher and Silverman

"Introduction to Modern Cryptography" by Katz and Lindell

"A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography" by Boneh and Shoup

"Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Menesez, Oorschot and Vanstone

Lecture Slides:

1. Introduction -- Anthony Kling
2. Security, Runtimes, and a computational Review of Modular Arithmetic -- David Taylor
3. Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange -- Utkarsh Agrawal
4. RSA -- Anthony Kling
5. Factorization -- Utkarsh Agrawal
6. RSA (Part 2: Factoring via Difference of Squares) -- Anthony Kling
7. RSA (Part 3: Relation Building) -- Anthony Kling
8. Sieves -- Anthony Kling
9. Primality Testing and the Miller-Rabin Algorithm -- David Taylor