Foundations of Cryptography

Week 1:  Course Overview, Symmetric-key Encryption, Historical Ciphers, Perfect Security and Its Limitations
Week 2: Computational Security, Semantic Security and Pseudorandom Generators (PRGs)
Week 3: Stream Ciphers, Provably-secure Instantiation of PRG, Practical Instantiation of PRG, CPA-security and Pseudo-random Functions (PRFs)
Week 4: CPA-Secure Ciphers from PRF, Modes of Operations of Block Ciphers, Theoretical Constructions of Block Ciphers and Practical Constructions of Block Ciphers
Week 5: DES, AES and Message Authentication Codes (MAC)
Week 6: Information-theoretic Secure MAC, Cryptographic Hash Functions, Ideal-Cipher Model, Davies-Meyer construction and Merkle-Damgård Paradigm
Week 7: Birthday Attacks on Cryptographic Hash Functions, Applications of Hash Functions, Random Oracle Model and Authenticated Encryption
Week 8:  Generic Constructions of Authenticated Encryption Schemes, Key-exchange Problem, One-way Trapdoor Functions and Cyclic Groups
Week 9: Discrete-Logarithm Problem, Computational Diffie-Hellman Problem, Decisional Diffie-Hellman Problem, Elliptic-Curve Based Cryptography and Public-Key Encryption
Week 10: El Gamal Encryption Scheme, RSA Assumption, RSA Public-key Cryptosystem, KEM-DEM Paradigm and CCA-security in the Public-key Domain
Week 11: CCA-secure Public-key Hybrid Ciphers Based on Diffie-Hellman Problems and RSA-assumption, Digital Signatures, RSA Signatures and Schnorr Identification Scheme
Week 12: Schnorr Signature, Overview of TLS/SSL, Number Theory, Interactive Protocols and Farewell

1. Introduction to Modern Cryptography by Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell
2. Cryptography Theory and Practice by Douglas Stinson

• The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
• The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
• Date and Time of Exams: 25th April 2020, Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
• Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
• The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
• Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE:
• Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
• Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100
• Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75.
• If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.
• Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IISc Bangalore. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.
• Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.