Undergraduate Course: Introduction to Modern Cryptography (UG) (INFR11221)
Course Outline
| School | School of Informatics |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course follows the delivery and assessment of Introduction to Modern Cryptography (INFR11131) exactly. Undergraduate students must register for this course, while MSc students must register for INFR11131 instead. |
| Course description |
This course follows the delivery and assessment of Introduction to Modern Cryptography (INFR11131) exactly. Undergraduate students must register for this course, while MSc students must register for INFR11131 instead.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
It is RECOMMENDED that students have passed
Computer Security (INFR10067) AND
Algorithms and Data Structures (INFR10052)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | Students MUST NOT also be taking
Introduction to Modern Cryptography (INFR11131)
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Other requirements | This course follows the delivery and assessment of Introduction to Modern Cryptography (INFR11131) exactly. Undergraduate students must register for this course, while MSc students must register for INFR11131 instead.
This course has the following prerequisites:
1 Computer security: familiarity with basic concepts such as public and private-key encryption, one-time pad, PRG, AES, RSA
2 Probability: random variables, independence, Bayes' theorem, statistical distance, union bound
3 Algorithms: asymptotics and big-O notation
4 Mathematical maturity and being comfortable with reading and constructing mathematical proofs |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | As above. |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 18,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
76 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
70 %,
Coursework
30 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
70% Exam
30% Coursework |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | Introduction to Modern Cryptography (UG) (INFR11221) | 2:120 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- apply basic number theory, group theory and discrete probability to analyse cryptographic algorithms
- understand the notions of pseudorandom functions/generators and their connection with encryption schemes
- develop the ability to model security problems and to write security proofs
- understand fundamental cryptographic primitives including Key Exchange, Digital Signatures, Oblivious Transfer, Public-Key Encryption, Commitment, and critique or prove the security of candidate cryptographic schemes that are supposed to realize the above primitives
- understand basic computational problems that are important for cryptography such as the factoring problem, the RSA problem, the discrete-logarithm problem, and develop the ability to reduce the security of cryptographic schemes to computational problems
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Michele Ciampi
Tel: (0131 6)51 5661
Email: michele.ciampi@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Yesica Marco Azorin
Tel: (0131 6)50 5194
Email: ymarcoa@ed.ac.uk |
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