MTAT.07.006 Research Seminar in Cryptography
(3+3 AP = 4.5+4.5 ECTS)

Autumn 2008: Various Topics in Cryptography

[General Information] [Course description] [Course Organization] [Schedule] [Background] [OIS]

General Information

• Seminars lead by Helger Lipmaa. Office 334. Office hours: by appointment.
• Time and room: Friday 14:15-15:45, room ???. Seminars are only going to happen when somebody talks. Check the schedule page. I will directly email information to all students, so email me if you want to be in my mailing list
• Course material: papers and surveys on the subjects (see schedule). More information follows later.
• To pass the course: see Course Organization (http://research.cyber.ee/~lipmaa/teaching/MTAT.07.006/organization.php)
• Mailing list: teadus dot crypto at lists dot ut dot ee. No brochure in Estonian. No exams.

Focus for 2009

The next will be discussed during the first seminar. The seminar series will not have a concrete focus. Instead, various supervisors propose their topics for interested students. The supervisors mainly choose topics that are interesting for themselves, which in particular means that they are in most cases able to continue supervision also after the seminar to the end of a potential MSc (or BSc/PhD?) thesis. Such continuation is however not mandatory.

Students can also propose their own topics, but in this case they have to find a supervisor who is interested in supervision.

Some topics require previous knowledge of cryptography, but other topics will be accessible to students who take Crypto I in parallel (although, some independent work is to be expected in this case).

This course is obligatory for our NordSecMob master students. Everybody else is also more than welcome.

Signing up for the seminar

Fastest way: use OIS. If you do not manage - don't blame me, OIS was not programmed for human usage. (You probably have to email Ülle Holm who will then manually register you.)

Registered students:

• Riivo Talviste (supervisor: DB) - 24 April
• Katharina Kahrs (supervisor: SL) - 8 May
• Kaur Kasak (supervisor: HL) - 15 May
• Margus Niitsoo (supervisor: AB) - 22 May
• Dan Bogdanov (supervisor: SL) - 29 May

Proposed Topics (sorted by supervisor)

For most of the topics, browse the corresponding section of Helger's Cryptopointers to find links to papers, surveys etc.

List of the supervisors follows. Click on the name of the supervisor for topics proposed by the concrete supervisor.

Helger Lipmaa

Dan Bogdanov

Ahto Buldas

Peeter Laud

Sven Laur

Links

Review form.

Want to know something about subject? Browse the link collection at http://research.cyber.ee/~lipmaa/crypto/.

Previous years: [Autumn 2001 @TKK] [Autumn 2002 @TKK] [Autumn 2003 @TKK] [Autumn 2004 @TKK] [Autumn 2005 @Tartu] [Autumn 2008 @Tartu]

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