- Docente: Alex Marchioni
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ING-INF/01
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Electronic Engineering (cod. 0934)
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from Feb 18, 2025 to Jun 11, 2025
Learning outcomes
The course provides a basic knowledge of the fundamental concepts, terminology and problems in cryptography as well as tools for assessing the security of data protection schemes commonly employed. It also provides high level requirements and design guidelines for typical blocks used in security-ensuring mechanisms.
Course contents
- Data security services
- Symmetric Algorithms
- Perfect Secrecy, Diffusion, and Confusion
- Stream Ciphers: LFSR, Berlekamp-Massey Algorithm, CPRNG
- Block Ciphers: AES, Modes of Operation
- Asymmetric Algorithms
- RSA
- Cyclic Groups and DHKE
- Digital Signature
- Hash function
- Post-Quantum Cryptography
- Block-Chain
Readings/Bibliography
Available on the platform Virtuale:
- Lecture Notes
- Scientific papers
- Technical notes/specifications and standards publications
Additional textbooks for reference
- Boneh, Shoup, "A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography" (available online cryptobook.us)
- Smart, "Cryptography: An Introduction (3rd Edition)" (available online)
- Rubinstein-Salzedo, "Cryptography", Springer, 2018 (available in the UniBO library)
- Buchmann, "Introduction to Cryptography", Springer, 2001 (available in the UniBO library)
Teaching methods
- Class lectures with theory
- Lab sessions with excercises and assignments.
Assessment methods
The assessment is split into two parts: lab and theory:
- Lab: oral discussion of the assignments submitted during the course or of a project.
- Theory: oral exam
Teaching tools
Lecture notes, recommended readings.
Python programming language.
Office hours
See the website of Alex Marchioni