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90392 - Elements of Applied Data Security M

Academic Year 2019/2020

                
                        Docente:
                        Riccardo Rovatti
                    
                        Credits:
                        6
                    
                        SSD:
                        ING-INF/01
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                            Electronic Engineering (cod. 0934)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

The course provides a basic knowledge of the fundamental concepts, terminology and problems in cryptography as well as tools for assessing the security of data protection schemes commonly employed. It also provides high level requirements and design guidelines for typical blocks used in security-ensuring mechanisms.

Course contents

Data security, what are we speaking of?
Algebraic structures
Streaming ciphers
LFSR
Berlekamp-Massy algorithm and linear complexity
CPRNG for stream ciphers
AES encryption
AES decryption
Modes of operation of block ciphers
Modular arithmetic, Euclid gcd algorithm, Euler function, some useful number theory
Public key cryptography - RSA
Cyclic groups and discrete logarithms
Diffie-Hellman key exchange, Elgamal and Elliptic cryptography
Signatures
Hash functions in cryptography
A glimpse of post-quantum cryptography

Teaching methods

Class teaching + lab

Assessment methods

Oral examination and discussion of lab assignments

Office hours

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