Seminar Cryptology and Privacy - Mathematical Foundations of Cryptography (WS 2024/25)
Table of Content
Content
Mathematics is arguably the backbone of entire field of cryptography. It is the language we use when describing our constructions, it is the tool we use when proving the strength of those constructions and it is the fabric of the very definitions of what we mean when we say something is secure, private, oblivious and so on. In this course we give an introduction to some of the mathematical foundations of cryptography, such as- Probability theory (Including random variables, probability distributions, Markov's inequality and Chernoff bounds)
- Differential Privacy (Both statistical and computational)
- Probabilistic algorithms and complexity theory (including indistinguishability and nonuniformity)
- Algebra (Including Groups, Rings, Fields, Gröbner bases)
- Elliptic curves and Isogenies
Material
| Date | Who | Lecture 10:00–12:00 (IAIK Seminar room) | Additional Material |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03.10.2024 | FM + KK | Kick-Off: Course introduction & organization | lecture notes and slides |
| 10.10.2024 | FM | L1 - Probability theory basics | lecture notes |
| 17.10.2024 | FM | L2 - Differential privacy | lecture notes |
| 24.10.2024 | FM | L3 - Probabilistic algorithms and Complexity Theory | lecture notes |
| 31.10.2024 | No lecture | ||
| 07.11.2024 | FM | L4 - Computational Differential Privacy | lecture notes |
| 14.11.2024 | KK | L5 - Algebra 1 (Relations, Groups) | Slides and Jupyter notebook |
| 21.11.2024 | KK | L6 - Algebra 2 (Rings, Fields) | See Algebra 1 |
| 28.11.2024 | KK | L7 - Elliptic Curves and Isogenies | Slides and Jupyter notebook |
| 05.12.2024 | KK | L8 - Gröbner Bases | Slides and Jupyter notebook |
| 16.01.2025 | You | Seminar talks | |
| 23.01.2025 | You | Seminar talks |
Deadlines
| Date | Who | What | Additional Material |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28.11.2024 | You | Choose your seminar paper topic | |
| 20.12.2024 | You | Submit your paper draft | |
| 09.01.2025 | FM + KK | Get feedback on your paper draft | |
| 09.02.2025 | You | Submit your seminar paper |
Administrative Information
Course Mode- The course starts with a series of lectures, where you will get an overview of the course content. Slides or lecture notes from the lecture will be available at the latest just after the lecture.
- Your course contribution consists of a seminar paper and a presentation. Topics for seminar papers related to the contents of each lecture is presented at the end of the given lecture. You are also free to choose your own topic, unrelated to lecture contents.
- Coordinate your topic with us before you start working on it.
- Deadline for choosing topic is the 28th of November, but you are allowed to choose before that if you wish.
Seminar Paper
- You write a seminar paper about a well-defined topic that is coordinated with us.
- A very rough guideline is to aim at around 15 pages for the paper, but you're free to hand in both significantly longer and significantly shorter papers, as long as the depth and clarity does not suffer as a result.
- Submission deadline for a first draft is the 20th of December.
- You will get feedback on the draft at the latest on the 9th of January.
- The final deadline of the paper is then the 9th of February.
Seminar Presentation
- You present your seminar topic in a seminar talk that lasts around 30 minutes.
- The dates for presentations are January 16th and 23th.
- Send us a draft 1 week before you deliver your presentation.
- Send us your final presentation slides 1 day before your talk.
Other administrative matters
- We have a channel for the course on the IAIK discord server.
Lecture Dates
| Date | Begin | End | Location | Event | Type | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/01/09 | 10:00 | 12:00 | Seminarraum | Abhaltung | SE | fix/ |
| 2025/01/16 | 10:00 | 12:00 | Seminarraum | Abhaltung | SE | fix/ |
| 2025/01/23 | 10:00 | 12:00 | Seminarraum | Abhaltung | SE | fix/ |
