COSC412
Cryptography and Security
Lectures - Semester 2, 2020
The schedule below is provided as a guide to our teaching plans, but remains subject to change. Recorded or prerecorded lectures are available on Otago Capture.
| Lecture 1 (DE) | Introduction; access control and security |
| Lecture 2 (MA) | Symmetric cryptosystems and discrete probability |
| Lecture 3 (MA) | One time pads, stream ciphers, and semantic security |
| Lecture 4 (MA) | Asymmetric cryptography |
| Lecture 5 (MA) | Complexity, knapsacks, and attacks |
| Lecture 6 (DE) | Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory |
| Lecture 7 (DE) | Block ciphers, HTTPS, TLS/SSL and certificates |
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Mid Semester Break |
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| Lecture 8 (DE) | Decentralised authorisation and OAuth 2.0 |
| Lecture 9 (DE) | Homomorphic Encryption |
| Lecture 10 (DE) | Reliability, distributed consensus and blockchain (e.g., bitcoin) |
| Lecture 11 (MA) | Quantum computation |
| Lecture 12 (MA) | Quantum computation |
| Lecture 13 | Poster Presentations |
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