CS 600.442: Modern Cryptography (Fall 2016)

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Overview:

Instructor: Abhishek Jain Time: 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm, Monday and Wednesday Location: Shaffer 302 Office Hours: Drop by my office (Malone 315) or email Prerequisites: CS 600.363/463, 600.271/471 & AMS 550.171 or equivalent (exposure to undergraduate algorithms, theory of computation, and maturity with mathematical proofs) Grading: 10% Scribes, 30% Homework, 20% Midterm, 40% Final Scribe: Use this template. Hand in your latex source within one week of the lecture.

TA: Gijs Van Laer Office Hours: Setup appointment by email (gijs.vanlaer AT jhu.edu) Review Session: 3pm - 4pm, Friday, in Malone 228

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Lectures: Lecture 0: Introduction Lecture 1: One-way functions (I) (Scribe) Lecture 2: One-way functions (II) (Scribe) Lecture 3-1: Hard Core Predicates Lecture 3-2: Pseudorandomness (I) (Scribe) Lecture 4: Pseudorandomness (II) (Scribe) Lecture 5: Pseudorandomness (III) (Scribe) Lecture 6: Secret Key Encryption (Scribe) Lecture 7: Public Key Encryption (Scribe) Lecture 8: Authentication (Scribe) Lecture 9: Zero Knowledge Proofs (I) (Scribe) Lecture 10: Zero Knowledge Proofs (II) (Scribe) Lecture 11: Secure Computation (I) (Scribe) Lecture 12: Secure Computation (II) (Scribe) Lecture 13: Secure Computation (III) (Scribe) Lecture 14: NIZK (I) (Scribe) Lecture 15: NIZK (II) (Scribe) Lecture 16: CCA Security (I) (Scribe) Lecture 17: CCA Security (II) (Scribe)

Homeworks: HW 1 (Due: October 3, 2016) HW 2 (Due: October 17, 2016) HW 3 (Due: November 18, 2016)

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Useful Lecture Notes: A Course in Cryptography, Rafael Pass and Abhi Shelat Introduction to Cryptography, Jonathan Katz Lecture Notes on Cryptography, Shafi Goldwasser and Mihir Bellare Introduction to Modern Cryptography, Mihir Bellare and Phillip Rogaway

Useful Books: Introduction to Modern Cryptography, Second Edition, Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell Foundations of Cryptography: Volume 1, Basic Tools, Oded Goldreich Foundations of Cryptography: Volume 2, Basic Applications, Oded Goldreich