In this seminar, we will introduce recent research trends in
cryptography. The students will learn how to read/understand research
papers and present them to others. We will focus on topics that were
presented at recent conferences for cryptographic research. A selection
of possible topics is given below:
1. Distributed cryptography, where the cryptographic task (e.g.,
signing or encryption) is distributed among a large number of machines.
2. Zero-knowledge proof systems to prove that a statement is true without revealing anything beyond the statement.
3. Provable secure countermeasures against side-channel attacks to
protect devices against physical attacks exploiting, e.g., the power
consumption or running time of a device.
4. Multiparty computation to securely compute a function without revealing anything beyond the output of the computation.
We will present a short introduction to these topics during the
kick-off meeting, and provide the students with a list of possible
research papers. We will also give some guidelines into how to structure
your presentation and provide close guidance in understanding the
material of the papers.
- Dozent*in: Sebastian Faust
- Dozent*in: David Kretzler
- Dozent*in: Elena Micheli