90392 - ELEMENTS OF APPLIED DATA SECURITY M

Anno Accademico 2025/2026

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

    Valido anche per Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria elettronica (cod. 6716)

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
  • Security in Neural Networks

Testi/Bibliografia

Available on the platform Virtuale:

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

Additional textbooks for reference

  • Boneh, Shoup, "A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography" (available online cryptobook.us)
  • Smart, "Cryptography: An Introduction (3rd Edition)" (available online)
  • Rubinstein-Salzedo, "Cryptography", Springer, 2018 (available in the UniBO library)
  • Buchmann, "Introduction to Cryptography", Springer, 2001 (available in the UniBO library)

Metodi didattici

  • Class lectures with theory
  • Lab sessions

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Written and oral exam

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Lecture notes, recommended readings.
Python programming language.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Alex Marchioni