Advanced Symmetric Crypto

Lecturer: Assist. Prof. Alex Biryukov
Lecture location: room 01.57 (ESAT building) 
Lecture times: Friday, 14:00--16:00,  04-March-2005- June-2005, 

1. Quick intro into differential and linear cryptanalysis. ( 1 lecture, Samos). 2. Advanced variants of differential and linear cryptanalysis.     (boomerang, differential-linear, interpolation, high order, multiple linear, etc.)
3. Multiset attacks (square, integral, G-M collisions). (1 lecture, Samos). (slides in PDF) 4. Attacks that do not depend on the number of iterations: slide attacks. (2 lectures)    a) on block/stream ciphers.    b) on hash functions (SHA-1). 5. Summarize the state of the art in algebraic attacks.    a) on block ciphers    b) on stream ciphers 6. Summarize the state of the art in design/cryptanalysis of hash/macs      (including the most recent advances). 7. Tradeoff attacks on block/stream ciphers. (2 lectures) 8. Case studies of RC4, A5/1, Bluetooth, Misty-Kasumi (2 lectures)
9. Other (for ex.  attempts of building PK schemes out of symmetric schemes;     other attacks on stream ciphers;  T-functions).

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