Cryptography
Code
9977
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Matemática
Credits
6.0
Teacher in charge
Reinhard Josef Klaus Kahle
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
Introduction to Cryptography
Prerequisites
-
Subject matter
Introduction
Symmetric ciphers
Asymmetric ciphers make a first appearance
Diffie-Hellman key exchange
Integer factorization and RSA
Elliptic curve cryptography
The evolution of public key cryptography
Bibliography
Cryptography, information theory, and error-correction, by Aiden Bruen and Mario Forcinito, Wiley-interscience.
An introduction to Mathematical Criptography, by Hoffstein, Pipher and Silverman, Springer.
Evaluation method
The student must attend to 2/3 of the given lectures.
Evaluation is based on two seminars per student (presentation, discussion and report) and one test. Each seminar contributs with 45% to the final grade, and the test contributs with 10%.
Grades greater or equal than 10 points lead to approval.
Whenever the grade is more or equal than 18 points, an extra examination might be required. If the student declines it, the final grade of 17 points will be given.