Material

Material

Week	Type	Date	Content	Assessment
13 to 24			[ organisation | notation | revision questions and solutions ]
13	Lecture slot (synchronous)	19/01/26 @ 10:00 Queens Building 1.69	Unit intro. [ slides | notes ]   [ slides | notes ]	Summative coursework assignment (AttackHW): submission deadline 30/04/26 [ description ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	20/01/26 @ 14:00 MVB-1.15	[ worksheet ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	22/01/26 @ 15:00 MVB-1.15	[ worksheet ]
14	Lecture slot (synchronous)	26/01/26 @ 10:00 Queens Building 1.69	Implementation (AES) [ slides | notes | extended notes ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	27/01/26 @ 14:00 MVB-1.15	[ worksheet ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	29/01/26 @ 15:00 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)	02/02/26 @ 10:00 Queens Building 1.69	Implementation (RSA) [ slides | notes ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	03/02/26 @ 14:00 MVB-1.15	[ worksheet ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	05/02/26 @ 15:00 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)	09/02/26 @ 10:00 Queens Building 1.69	Implementation attacks (concepts) [ slides | notes | extended notes ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	10/02/26 @ 14:00 MVB-1.15	[ worksheet ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	12/02/26 @ 15:00 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)	16/02/26 @ 10:00 Queens Building 1.69	Implementation attacks (examples) [ slides | notes | extended notes ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	17/02/26 @ 14:00 MVB-1.15	[ worksheet ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	19/02/26 @ 15:00 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)	02/03/26 @ 10:00 Queens Building 1.69	Implementation (RNG) [ slides | notes ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	03/03/26 @ 14:00 MVB-1.15
Lab. slot (synchronous)	05/03/26 @ 15:00 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)	09/03/26 @ 10:00 Queens Building 1.69
Lab. slot (synchronous)	10/03/26 @ 14:00 MVB-1.15
Lab. slot (synchronous)	12/03/26 @ 15:00 MVB-1.15
Additional resources
21	Lecture slot (asynchronous)	16/03/26 @ 10:00 Queens Building 1.69
Lab. slot (synchronous)	17/03/26 @ 14:00 MVB-1.15
Lab. slot (synchronous)	19/03/26 @ 15:00 MVB-1.15
Additional resources
22	Lecture slot (asynchronous)	13/04/26 @ 10:00 Queens Building 1.69
Lab. slot (synchronous)	14/04/26 @ 14:00 MVB-1.15
Lab. slot (synchronous)	16/04/26 @ 15:00 MVB-1.15
Additional resources
23	Lecture slot (asynchronous)	20/04/26 @ 10:00 Queens Building 1.69
Lab. slot (synchronous)	21/04/26 @ 14:00 MVB-1.15
Lab. slot (synchronous)	23/04/26 @ 15:00 MVB-1.15
Additional resources
24	Lecture slot (asynchronous)	27/04/26 @ 10:00 Queens Building 1.69	Unit outro. [ slides | notes ]
Lab. slot (synchronous)	28/04/26 @ 14:00 MVB-1.15
Lab. slot (synchronous)	29/04/26 @ 11:00 MVB-1.15
TB2 assessment period