Selected Topics in Cryptography
6.897 · Electrical Engineering and Computer Science · Graduate · Spring 2004
Prof. Ran Canetti
This course covers a number of advanced “selected topics” in the field of cryptography. The first part of the course tackles the foundational question of how to define security of cryptographic protocols in a way that is appropriate for modern computer networks, and how to construct protocols that satisfy these security definitions. For this purpose, the framework of “universally composable security” is studied and used. The second part of the course concentrates on the many challenges involved…
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