Missing presenter/opponent names means that the corresponding position is still open. (In such cases, the concrete topic might be relocated to a different date.) Missing topic names means that the course has not yet been planned to this far in such a level of details. In preparing your own survey, please use Petteri's .tex file as a formatting example. (See here for the outcomes of T-79.511 in 2001.) Please also use the slide templates: template.tex and init.tex. Process your slides, if possible, by pdflatex, and return them in a .pdf format. The survey could be returned in .ps, .pdf or both.
Preliminary (tentative! The order might be rescheduled, topics changed, etc) schedule follows. Details can be changed, so be uptodate!
Most probably, seminars on some of the weeks will be cancelled. It will be announced in advance. To compensate it, we might 2 seminars on some of the Mondays.
| Date | Subject | (sl)ides, (su)rveys | Presenter | Opponent | Suggested reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appetisers (cryptology seminar on resent research: HL, AB, PL, JV, SL, EK, ...?) | ||||||
| 01.08.2005 | Short intro | Helger Lipmaa | -- | |||
| Additive Conditional Disclosure of Secrets and Applications (SL, HL) | sl | Helger Lipmaa | ||||
| 08.08.2005 | A Type System for Computationally Secure Information Flow (PL, Varmo Vene, FCT 2005) | paper sl | Peeter Laud | - | ||
| 15.08.2005 | Are Collisions Bad For Time-Stamping? (AB, work in progress) | abstract sl | Ahto Buldas | - | ||
| 22.08.2005 | Meaning of life from the viewpoint of data security. Notes from a dreamy cryptographer (JV) | sl | Jan Willemson | - | ||
| 29.08.2005 | No seminar | - | ||||
| 05.09.2005 | Course introduction. Giving the assignments | |||||
| General intro | Helger Lipmaa | - | - | |||
| 12.09.2005 | Privacy and security in GSM (overview) | Emilia Käsper | - | |||
| 19.09.2005 | Cancelled, travelling | |||||
| 26.09.2005 | Cancelled, travelling | |||||
| 03.10.2005 | Block cipher modes and disk sector encryption | sl sur rev | Mart Sõmermaa | Sven Laur | Helger's links Mart's page | |
| 10.10.2005 | Designated Verifier Signature Schemes | sl sur rev | Liina Kamm | Dan Bogdanov | links | |
| 17.10.2005 | Privacy-Preserving Data Mining | sl sur rev | Konstantin Tretjakov | Oleg Koshik | links | |
| 24.10.2005 | Side Channel Attacks | sl sur rev | Aleksei Ivanov | Jaak Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt | Aleksei's page | |
| 31.10.2005 | IND-CCA2 secure cryptosystems | sl sur rev | Dan Bogdanov | Aleksei Ivanov | ||
| 07.11.2005 | PrivatE Information Retrieval | sl sur rev | Alexandr Grebennik | Liina Kamm | ||
| 14.11.2005 | Hash functions and their security | Marko Jõemets | Mart Sõmermaa | |||
| 21.11.2005 | Zero-Knowledge | sl sur rev | Oleg Koshik | Kadri Hendla | links | |
| 28.11.2005 | Strong security guarantees for time-stamping | non-public | Sven Laur | Konstantin Tretjakov | ||
| 05.12.2005 | Enigma | sl sur rev | Kadri Hendla | Alexandr Grebennik | ||
| 12.12.2005 | Game-Theoretic Analysis of Global Security Problems | Kaspar Ilves | Marko Jõemets | |||
| (HL is travelling on 12.12, seminar is led by Jan Willemson) | ||||||
| 19.12.2005 | Cancelled, travelling (ISAAC 2005) | TBA | - | |||
| ?????? | Program Obfuscation | sl sur rev | Jaak Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt | ? | ||
The choice of the topics is not final. If you have a topic yourself, please let me know.