Fundamentals of Cryptography (CY302)-CSE-Cyber Security (III-Semester) | RGPV

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• Syllabus

• Syllabus - Fundamentals of Cryptography (CY302)

• Unit 01

• Introduction of cryptography
• Symmetric-key Encryption
• Historical Ciphers
• Computational Security
• Semantic Security and Pseudorandom Generators (PRGs)
• Perfect secrecy

• Unit 02

• CPA-Secure Ciphers from PRF
• Modes of Operations of Block Ciphers
• DES, AES and Message Authentication Codes (MAC)
• Information-theoretic Secure MAC
• Cryptographic Hash Functions

• Unit 03

• Ideal-Cipher Model
• Davies-Meyer Birthday Attacks on Cryptographic Hash Functions
• Applications of Hash Functions
• Random Oracle Model and Authenticated Encryption
• Generic Constructions of Authenticated Encryption Schemes
• Key-exchange Problem, One-way Trapdoor Functions and Cyclic Groups
• Merkle-Damgård construction Paradigm

• Unit 04

• Discrete-Logarithm Problem
• Computational Diffie-Hellman Problem
• Decisional, Diffie-Hellman Problem
• Elliptic-Curve Based Cryptography and Public-Key Encryption

• Unit 05

• CCA -secure Public-key Hybrid Ciphers Based on Diffie-Hellman Problems and RSA-assumption
• Digital Signatures
• Overview of TLS/SSL
• Number Theory, Interactive Protocols