Welcome to Cybersecurity

Description: Typical attacks on critical infrastructures: How hackers can abuse Internet of Things, and how attacks can be prevented and detected. Recently, methods from fault detection originated in control theory found its application in detection of cyber-attacks. In the second part of the lecture we will discuss public-key cryptosystems, which are widely used for secure data transmission. Public key cryptography aims at solving the problem of how two parties can communicate securely when they have not agreed on some secret common key, which is often the case in for example communication through the internet. It includes both public key encryption, which guarantees the secrecy of a message, and digital signatures, which provides authentication and integrity. In connection to this, we will also discuss key exchange. We will introduce some of the more classical, but still widely used, public key cryptosystems, such RSA and El Gamal/ Diffie-Hellman and we will discuss which security properties are usually required from them nowadays.

Subsequently, we will investigate the problem of secure multi-party computation, which studies how to "compute on encrypted data": how several mutually distrustful parties can collaborate to jointly perform computations involving private data without needing to actually reveal their private information to the others.

Prerequisite: mathematics on the level of Master in science and engineering

Organizers: Rafael Wisniewski, Ignacio Cascudo Pueyo, Jens Myrup Pedersen

Lecturers: Rafael Wisniewski, Ignacio Cascudo Pueyo, Jens Myrup Pedersen
ECTS: 3

Time: May 13th to 17th, 2019, all days

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Number of seats: 30

Deadline: April 22nd 2019

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