90392 - ELEMENTS OF APPLIED DATA SECURITY M

Anno Accademico 2023/2024

  • Docente: Alex Marchioni
  • Crediti formativi: 6
  • SSD: ING-INF/01
  • Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
  • Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria elettronica (cod. 0934)

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

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.

Contenuti

  • Data security services
  • Symmetric Algorithms
  • Perfect Secrecy, Diffusion, and Confusion
  • Stream Ciphers: LFSR, Berlekamp-Massey Algorithm, CPRNG
  • Block Ciphers: AES, Modes of Operation
  • Asymmetric Algorithms
  • RSA
  • Cyclic Groups and DHKE
  • Digital Signature
  • Hash function
  • Post-Quantum Cryptography
  • Block-Chain

Testi/Bibliografia

Available on the platform Virtuale:

  • Lecture Notes
  • Scientific papers
  • Technical notes/specifications and standards publications

Additional textbooks for reference (available in the UniBO library):

  • Rubinstein-Salzedo, "Cryptography", Springer, 2018
  • Buchmann, "Introduction to Cryptography", Springer, 2001

Metodi didattici

  • Class lectures with theory
  • Lab sessions with excercises and assignments.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

The assessment is split into two parts: lab and theory:

  • Lab: oral discussion of the assignments submitted during the course or of a project.
  • Theory: oral exam

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Lecture notes, recommended readings.

Python programming language.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Alex Marchioni