Material

Material

Week	Type	Date	Content	Assessment
13 to 24			[ organisation | notation | revision questions and solutions ]
13	Lecture slot (synchronous)	18/01/27 @ 11:00 Ada Lovelace Building SM3	Unit intro. [ slides | notes ]   [ slides | notes ]	Summative coursework assignment (AttackHW): submission deadline 29/04/27 [ description ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	21/01/27 @ 13:00 MVB-1.15	[ worksheet ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	22/01/27 @ 11:00 MVB-1.15	[ worksheet ]
14	Lecture slot (synchronous)	25/01/27 @ 11:00 Ada Lovelace Building SM3	Implementation (AES) [ slides | notes | extended notes ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	28/01/27 @ 13:00 MVB-1.15	[ worksheet ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	29/01/27 @ 11:00 MVB-1.15	[ worksheet ]
Additional resources		A.J. Menezes, P.C. van Oorschot, and S.A. Vanstone. Handbook of applied cryptography. 5th edition, CRC Press, 2001. § 2: mathematical background [ content ]; § 7: block ciphers [ content ]. C. Paar and J. Pelzl. Understanding cryptography. 1st edition, Springer, 2010. § 4: finite fields [ content | video ]; § 4: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) [ content | video ]. J. Daemen and V. Rijmen. The design of Rijndael. 1st edition, Springer, 2002 [ content ]. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 197: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). 2024.
15	Lecture slot (synchronous)	01/02/27 @ 11:00 Ada Lovelace Building SM3	Implementation (RSA) [ slides | notes ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	04/02/27 @ 13:00 MVB-1.15	[ worksheet ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	05/02/27 @ 11:00 MVB-1.15	[ worksheet ]
Additional resources		A.J. Menezes, P.C. van Oorschot, and S.A. Vanstone. Handbook of applied cryptography. 5th edition, CRC Press, 2001. § 2: mathematical background [ content ]; § 8: public-key encryption [ content ]; § 14: efficient implementation [ content ]. C. Paar and J. Pelzl. Understanding cryptography. 1st edition, Springer, 2010. § 7: the RSA cryptosystem and efficient exponentiation [ content | video ]. R.L. Rivest, A. Shamir, and L. Adleman. A method for obtaining digital signatures and public-key cryptosystems. In Communications of the ACM (CACM), 21(2), 120--126, 1978. P.L. Montgomery. Modular multiplication without trial division. In Mathematics of Computation, 44(170), 519--521, 1985. D.M. Gordon. A survey of fast exponentiation methods. In Journal of Algorithms, 27(1), 129--146, 1998.
16	Lecture slot (synchronous)	08/02/27 @ 11:00 Ada Lovelace Building SM3	Implementation attacks (concepts) [ slides | notes | extended notes ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	11/02/27 @ 13:00 MVB-1.15	[ worksheet ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	12/02/27 @ 11:00 MVB-1.15	[ worksheet ]
Additional resources		S. Mangard, E. Oswald, and T. Popp. Power analysis attacks: revealing the secrets of smart cards. 1st edition, Springer, 2010. M. Joye and M. Tunstall. Fault analysis in cryptography. 1st edition, Springer, 2014.
17	Lecture slot (synchronous)	15/02/27 @ 11:00 Ada Lovelace Building SM3	Implementation attacks (examples) [ slides | notes | extended notes ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	18/02/27 @ 13:00 MVB-1.15	[ worksheet ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	19/02/27 @ 11:00 MVB-1.15	[ worksheet ]
Additional resources		P.C. Kocher. Timing attacks on implementations of Diffie-Hellman, RSA, DSS, and other systems. In Advances in Cryptology (CRYPTO), Springer-Verlag, LNCS 1109, 104--113, 1996. P.C. Kocher, J. Jaffe, and B. Jun. Differential power analysis. In Advances in Cryptology (CRYPTO), Springer-Verlag, LNCS 1666, 388--397, 1999.
TB2 consolidation week
19	Lecture slot (synchronous)	01/03/27 @ 11:00 Ada Lovelace Building SM3	Implementation (T/PRBG) [ slides | notes ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	04/03/27 @ 13:00 MVB-1.15
Lab. slot (synchronous)	05/03/27 @ 11:00 MVB-1.15
Additional resources		A.J. Menezes, P.C. van Oorschot, and S.A. Vanstone. Handbook of applied cryptography. 5th edition, CRC Press, 2001. § 2: mathematical background [ content ]; § 5: pseudo-random bits and sequences [ content ].
20	Lecture slot (synchronous)	08/03/27 @ 11:00 Ada Lovelace Building SM3
Lab. slot (synchronous)	11/03/27 @ 13:00 MVB-1.15
Lab. slot (synchronous)	12/03/27 @ 11:00 MVB-1.15
Additional resources
21	Lecture slot (asynchronous)	15/03/27 @ 11:00 Ada Lovelace Building SM3
Lab. slot (synchronous)	18/03/27 @ 13:00 MVB-1.15
Lab. slot (synchronous)	19/03/27 @ 11:00 MVB-1.15
Additional resources
22	Lecture slot (asynchronous)	12/04/27 @ 11:00 Ada Lovelace Building SM3
Lab. slot (synchronous)	15/04/27 @ 13:00 MVB-1.15
Lab. slot (synchronous)	16/04/27 @ 11:00 MVB-1.15
Additional resources
23	Lecture slot (asynchronous)	19/04/27 @ 11:00 Ada Lovelace Building SM3	Chloe: challenges with post-quantum transition
Lab. slot (synchronous)	22/04/27 @ 13:00 MVB-1.15
Lab. slot (synchronous)	23/04/27 @ 11:00 MVB-1.15
Additional resources
24	Lecture slot (asynchronous)	26/04/27 @ 11:00 Ada Lovelace Building SM3	Unit outro. [ slides | notes ]
TB2 assessment period