Material

Material

Week	Type	Date	Content	Assessment
13 to 24			[ organisation | notation | revision questions and solutions ]
13	Lecture slot (synchronous)	13/01/25 QB-1.69	Unit intro. [ slides | notes ]   [ slides | notes ]	Summative coursework assignment (AttackHW) [ description ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	14/01/25 MVB-1.15	[ worksheet ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	17/01/25 MVB-1.15	[ worksheet ]
14	Lecture slot (synchronous)	20/01/25 QB-1.69	Implementation (AES) [ slides | notes | extended notes ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	21/01/25 MVB-1.15	[ worksheet ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	24/01/25 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)	27/01/25 QB-1.69	Implementation (RSA) [ slides | notes ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	28/01/25 MVB-1.15	[ worksheet ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	31/01/25 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)	03/02/25 QB-1.69	Implementation attacks (concepts) [ slides | notes | extended notes ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	04/02/25 MVB-1.15	[ worksheet ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	07/02/25 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)	10/02/25 QB-1.69	Implementation attacks (examples) [ slides | notes | extended notes ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	11/02/25 MVB-1.15	[ worksheet ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	14/02/25 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)	24/02/25 QB-1.69	Implementation (RNG) [ slides | notes ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	25/02/25 MVB-1.15
Lab. slot (synchronous)	28/02/25 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)	03/03/25 QB-1.69
Lab. slot (synchronous)	04/03/25 MVB-1.15
Lab. slot (synchronous)	07/03/25 MVB-1.15
Additional resources
21	Lecture slot (asynchronous)	10/03/25 QB-1.69
Lab. slot (synchronous)	11/03/25 MVB-1.15
Lab. slot (synchronous)	14/03/25 MVB-1.15
Additional resources
22	Lecture slot (asynchronous)	17/03/25 QB-1.69
Lab. slot (synchronous)	18/03/25 MVB-1.15
Lab. slot (synchronous)	21/03/25 MVB-1.15
Additional resources
23	Lecture slot (asynchronous)	24/03/25 QB-1.69
Lab. slot (synchronous)	25/03/25 MVB-1.15
Lab. slot (synchronous)	28/03/25 MVB-1.15
Additional resources
24	Lecture slot (asynchronous)	31/03/25 QB-1.69	Unit outro. [ slides | notes ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	01/04/25 MVB-1.15
Lab. slot (synchronous)	04/04/25 MVB-1.15
TB2 assessment period