Academic Catalog

IAM733 SPECIAL TOPICS: CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROTOCOLS

Course Code:	9700733
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):	3(0-3)
ECTS Credit:	8.0
Department:	Institute Of Applied Mathematics
Language of Instruction:	English
Level of Study:	Graduate
Course Coordinator:	Lecturer Dr. MEHMET SABIR KÝRAZ
Offered Semester:	Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

The primary focus of this course is to focus on the advanced cryptographic primitives,their use in cryptographic applicatrions;security and privacy weaknesses of the current protocols.Topics include homomorphic encryption,threshold cryptography, commitments, oblivious transfer,zero-knowledge protocols,secure multi-party computation and Yao`s garbled circuit approach.