COM SCI M282A
Cryptography
Computer Science · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
(Same as Mathematics M209A.) Introduction to theory of cryptography, stressing rigorous definitions and proofs of security. Topics include notions of hardness, one-way functions, hard-core bits, pseudorandom generators, pseudorandom functions and pseudorandom permutations, semantic security, public-key and private-key encryption, secret-sharing, message authentication, digital signatures, interactive proofs, zero-knowledge proofs, collision-resistant hash functions, commitment protocols, key-agreement, contract signing, and two-party secure computation with static security.
Letter grading.
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COM SCI M282A
- COM SCI M282BCryptographic Protocols
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