HTW Berlin Medieninformatik

HTW Berlin
Fachbereich 4
Internationaler Studiengang
Internationale Medieninformatik (Bachelor)
Aktuelle Themen: Cryptography
Winter Term 2024/25

Tentative Schedule WS 2024/25

Week

Lecture

 

Laboratory

Mondays
WH C 350
9:45-11:15

 

Mondays
WH C 350
12:15-13:45

 

Date

Topic

Instructor

Exercise

 

41

07.
10.

Introduction
Definitions
History of Cryptography - Caesar, Enigma

Thiel/Weber-Wulff

0

Simple ciphers

42

14.
10.

Math: XOR, GCD, Modulo

Thiel

1

XOR & GCD

43

21.
10.

CS: Codes & Ciphers

Weber-Wulff

2

Morse Code
Choose your poster topic

44

28.
10.

CS: Symmetric Cryptography

Weber-Wulff

3

Vigenère Cipher

45

04.
11.

Math: Chinese Remainder Theorem, Groups

Thiel

4

Chinese Remainder Theorem

46

11.
11.

Math: Mathematical basis of Diffie-Hellman - Groups

Thiel

5

Getting ready for Diffie-Hellmann

47

18.
11.

CS:
History of Asymmetric Cryptography - Diffie-Hellmann, Knapsack, Basic RSA

Weber-Wulff

6

Symmetric Key Programming

48

25.
11.

Math: Random Numbers, Discrete Logarithm, Mathematical Operations on Large Numbers

Thiel

7

Rechnen mit der CRT-Darstellung

49

02.
12.

CS: Asymmetric Cryptography - RSA, PGP, Digital Signatures

Weber-Wulff

8

Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange

50

09.
12.

Math: Rabin-Miller, RSA

Thiel

9

Rabin-Miller Programming

51

16.
12.

CS: Hash Functions and
Message Authentication Codes

Weber-Wulff

10

Dictionary Attack

52

 

Christmas Vacation

1

06.
01.

Math: Elliptic Curves

Thiel

11

Elliptic Curves

2

13.
01.

CS: Cryptographic Applications

  • Cryptography in ePassports,
  • Cryptographic Money protocols (Bitcoin & Blockchain)
  • Cryptographic Voting Protocols


Dr. Mai: Kryptowährung Bitcoin – jetzt erst recht?

Weber-Wulff

12

Key Signing

3

20.
01.

Math: Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Thiel


Preparation for Poster Session

4

27.
01.

Poster session

Thiel,
Weber-Wulff 		   

5

03.
02.

 Post-Quantum Computing Thiel,
Weber-Wulff

 

 

Other topics: State-of-the-Art in factoring, Biometric Word Lists, Applications of Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Security of elliptic curves; Peter Shor; Ron Rivest's Spritz, Soloway-Strassen test of primality, Alternative Tests of Primality [AKS], Paper, Cryptographic protocols of eVoting

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Last Change:  2024-09-08 14:00