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: Assoc.Prof.Dr. OÐUZ YAYLA
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.