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MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Spring 2004 Catalogue Supplement |
Prof. Ronald Rivest, Room NE43-324, 3-5880,
Prereq.: 6.875 or permission of instructor
3-0-9
This subject does not qualify as an Engineering Concentration subject.
This course will cover a number of advanced "selected topics" in the field of cryptography. The content may include, depending on the time available and student interest, topics such as: cryptographic protocols (general security definitions, composition theorems, protocols for specific tasks such as commitments and key exchange, general multi-party computation, composable notions of security for PK encryption and signatures), theory of extractors, privacy amplification, special-purpose factoring devices (and algorithms), concrete security arguments, differential cryptanalysis, public-key infrastructures, and protocols for electronic voting.