Foundations of Cryptography (Spring 2024) 

M,W 13:30-15:05;  @6A203
Office hour: W 15:30 - 16:30 @FIT 4-6008 (6th floor)

Email: [email protected]​

TAs: Sunli Chen, Fangqi Dong, Zhizhen Yuan
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Main ​reference:
A Course in Cryptography, Chapters 1-6,  Rafael Pass & abhi shelat
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs4830/2010fa/lecnotes.pdf

​Other references:
A graduate course in applied cryptography,  Dan Boneh & Victor Shoup
Foundations of Cryptography I, II, Oded Goldreich

Tentative Schedule:
0226 Lecture 1: Introduction I
0228 Lecture 2: Introduction II
0304 Lecture 3: Encryption with perfect secrecy
0306 Lecture 4: ​Computational hardness and one-way functions, factoring
0311 Lecture 5: Algorithms and hard problems related to factoring, RSA, and discrete-log
0313 Lecture 6: Indistinguishability and pseudorandomness
0318 Lecture 7: Pseudorandom generators
0320 Lecture 8: Hardcore bits: Yao, Goldreich-Levin
0325 Lecture 9: Pseudorandom functions: definitions and construction attempts
0327 Lecture 10: GGM's construction of PRF, and probabilistic encryption
0401 Lecture 11: Public-key encryption
0403 Lecture 12: Digital Signature, hash functions
0408 Lecture 13: Collision resistant hash functions and random oracles
​0410 Midterm Exam
0415 Lecture 14: Project ideas, lattice, SIS, and LWE
0417 Lecture 15: Public-key encryption from LWE
0422 Lecture 16: (Levelled) fully homomorphic encryption from LWE
0424 Lecture 17: From levelled FHE to FHE: Bootstrapping
0429 Lecture 18: Interactive proofs, zero-knowledge
0501 劳动节
0506 Lecture 19: Zero-knowledge proofs for all NP, commitments
0508 Lecture 20: MPC I: Oblivious transfer
0513 Lecture 21: MPC II: Yao's Garbled circuits
0515 Lecture 22: Obfuscation I: definitions
0520 Lecture 23: Obfuscation II: applications
0522 Lecture 24: Obfuscation III: constructions
0527 Lecture 25: Advanced topics: Pairing, IBE, ABE, FE. 
0529 Project presentation I
0603 Project presentation II
0605 Project presentation III
0610 Dragon boat festival
0612 Project presentation IV. Ending.