Estonian Cryptography

Teaching

News: New course by prof Nguyen Dinh Thuc

Announcement by Peeter Laud:

Dear students

In December and January, Institute of Computer Science of Tartu University will be visited by prof. Nguyen Dinh Thuc from the Faculty of IT,University of Science, National University of Ho Chi Minh City (www.hcmus.edu.vn). Prof. Nguyen visits us as a NordSecMob scholar, having been awarded a scholarship by the European Commission.

As a part of his stay, prof. Nguyen will teach a course called "Advanced cryptography and Applications" (MTAT.07.021, 2EAP) during the last three weeks of the semester (starting November 30th). The course nicely complements our own cryptography courses, putting more emphasis to areas that we cover less. The course will cover the cryptanalysis of asymmetric primitives (both public-key encryption and signatures), it will cover symmetric encryption primitives in more detail than offered in "Cryptology I", and maybe the most interesting part will be cryptographic primitives and protocols for low-power devices, e.g. mobile phones or wireless sensor networks.

The course is open for registration in ÕIS. I suggest the course for master and doctoral students (but also to third-year bachelor students). In particular, I suggest it to students having already passed the course "Cryptology I". The lecture times of the course (Mon 10-12, Wed 12-14, Thu 14-16 and Dec. 4th 12-14) have been chosen to not coincide with the times of (most) other master level courses offered by Institute of CS in this semester.

In addition to giving the course, prof. Nguyen can also be approached for thesis topics.

Cheers,
Peeter

Nordic Master Programme

Cryptography group at the University of Tartu a proud member of the NordSecMob --- Nordic Master's Programme in Security and Mobile Computing. Please check the link above for more information.

Lectures

University of Tartu:

1. Cryptology I: 2008 Autumn by Peeter Laud, earlier by Jan Willemson
2. Cryptology II: Spring 2008 by Sven Laur, earlier by Ahto Buldas
3. Cryptographic Protocols: Autumn 2008 by Peeter Laud, earlier by Helger Lipmaa
4. Data Security (Meelis Roos)
5. FKEF.04.011 Foundations of Quantum Computing and Quantum Cryptography (Peeter Saari)
6. Seminars:
   • Research Seminar in Cryptography (Autumn 2008, Helger Lipmaa)

Other institutions:

1. Tallinn Technical University
   1. Introduction to Data Security (Ahto Buldas)
   2. Introduction to Cryptography (Cryptography I) (Ahto Buldas)
   3. Cyber Defence MSc study module (or here)
2. Tallinn University: Cryptology (Valdo Praust)
3. IT College: Data Security and Cryptography (Valdo Praust)
4. Audentes: Cryptology (Raul Kangro)
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5. HUT: T-79.159 Cryptography and Data Security (Helger Lipmaa)

Invited short courses:

• Secure Reactive Systems, Michael Backes (Spring 2006)
• Software Obfuscation, Yury Lifshits (Spring 2006)
• Selected Topics in Algorithmic Game Theory, Edith Elkind (Autumn 2005)