ECTS
2 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Science
Description
- Objectives and challenges of physical security
- Symmetric encryption (DES, AES) and associated microelectronic architectures
- Modular arithmetic and multiplication of large numbers
- Asymmetric encryption (RSA) and associated microelectronic architectures
- Authentication Principle
- Random number generation
- Hidden channel attacks
- Offensive fouls
Objectives
Acquire the basics for understanding cryptography concepts and attacks on hardware systems implementing these algorithms.
Mandatory prerequisites
Digital electronics
Recommended prerequisites:
Programming and hardware description language
Syllabus
Book: "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" - http://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/hac/
Additional information
CM: 1:30 p.m.
Practical work: 3 hours