Introduction to Cryptography

Catalog description

This course is aimed as an introduction to modern cryptography. This course will be a mix of applied and theoretical cryptography. We will cover popular primitives such as: pseudorandom functions, encryption, signatures, zero-knowledge proofs, multi-party computation, and Blockchains. In addition, we will cover the necessary number-theoretic background. We will cover formal definitions of security, as well as constructions based on well established assumptions like factoring. Please see the course webpage for a detailed list of topics. Prerequisites: 15-251 Min. grade C or 21-228 Course Website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~goyal/15356/