Modern Cryptography detailed syllabus for Cyber Security (Cyber Security) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Cyber Security students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Cyber Security 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Cyber Security 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-III scheme and its subjects refer to Cyber Security Professional Elective-III syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of modern cryptography is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION
Basics of Symmetric Key Cryptography, Basics of Asymmetric Key Cryptography, Hardness of Functions. Notions of Semantic Security (SS) and Message Indistinguishability (MI): Proof of Equivalence of SS and MI, Hard Core Predicate, Trap-door permutation, Goldwasser-Micali Encryption. Goldreich-Levin Theorem: Relation between Hardcore Predicates and Trap-door permutations.
Unit II
FORMAL NOTIONS OF ATTACKS
Attacks under Message Indistinguishability: Chosen Plaintext Attack (IND-CPA), Chosen Ciphertext Attacks (IND-CCA1 and IND-CCA2), Attacks under Message Non-malleability: NM-CPA and NM-CCA2, Inter-relations among the attack model
Unit III
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Unit IV
BUILDING A PSEUDORANDOM PERMUTATION
The LubyRackoff Construction: Formal Definition, Application of the LubyRackoff Construction to the construction of Block Ciphers, The DES in the light of LubyRackoff Construction.
Unit V
MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION CODES
Left or Right Security (LOR). Formal Definition of Weak and Strong MACs, Using a PRF as a MAC, Variable length MAC. Public Key Signature Schemes: Formal Definitions, Signing and Verification, Formal Proofs of Security of Full Domain Hashing. Assumptions for Public Key Signature Schemes: One-way functions Imply Secure One-time Signatures. Shamir’s Secret Sharing Scheme. Formally Analyzing Cryptographic Protocols. Zero Knowledge Proofs and Protocols.
Practical Exercises
- Implement Feige-Fiat-Shamir identification protocol.
- Implement GQ identification protocol.
- Implement Schnorr identification protocol.
- Implement Rabin one-time signature scheme.
- Implement Merkle one-time signature scheme.
- Implement Authentication trees and one-time signatures.
- Implement GMR one-time signature scheme.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Hans Delfs and Helmut Knebl, Introduction to Cryptography: Principles and Applications, Springer Verlag.
- Wenbo Mao, Modern Cryptography, Theory and Practice, Pearson Education (Low Priced Edition)
Reference Books:
- 1.ShaffiGoldwasser and MihirBellare, Lecture Notes on Cryptography, Available at
- http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/.
- OdedGoldreich, Foundations of Cryptography, CRC Press (Low Priced Edition Available), Part 1 and Part 23
- William Stallings, “Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice”, PHI 3rd Edition, 2006.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Cyber Security 6th Sem, visit Cyber Security 6th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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