Course Syllabus

Syllabus

General Information

Class Time and Location: Tues/Thurs 3:40pm - 5pm, WEB 1248 

Office Hours: Tues 11am-12pm in WEB 2863 (or by appointment)

Important Dates:

  1. Mid-term exam (in class): 10/5/23, 3:40pm - 5:00pm
  2. Student project presentations (in class): 11/14/23 - 12/07/23 
  3. Final project reports due: 12/7/23

Piazza: https://piazza.com/utah/fall2023/cs6961

 

Course Description

 Modern Cryptography is used at scale to secure information at rest and/or in transit, and recently to also secure our computations. This course is a graduate-level introduction to the foundations of modern cryptography. It is also open to advanced undergraduates. We will cover basic cryptographic tools, discuss their applications and instantiations, and introduce a formal mathematical framework to rigorously argue about security. 

 In particular, the tools covered will include pseudorandom generators, pseudorandom functions, symmetric-key encryption, message-authentication codes, digital signatures, public-key encryption, and hash functions, along with a small sampling of advanced topics like zero-knowledge proofs and fully-homomorphic encryption. For each of these tools, will learn how to mathematically define security and discuss their use-cases in practice. We will also study their constructions from different computational hardness assumptions like the discrete-log problem, the factoring problem, and the plausibly quantum-hard problem of learning-with-errors. We may briefly cover applications of these tools for blockchain settings.

Pre-requisites: There are no formal pre-requisites and the course will not assume any prior background in cryptography. However, basic mathematical maturity is expected; exposure to undergraduate-level probability, elementary number/group theory, proofs by contradiction, and hardness reductions (in complexity theory) is highly recommended. Please discuss with the instructor in case of any gaps in your background.

Course Materials: The class will be self-contained, but the following is a continually expanding list of good resources for supplementary reading:

  1. A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography by Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup.
  2. A Course in Cryptography by Rafael Pass and abhi shelat.
  3. Introduction to Modern Cryptography by Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell.
  4. Lecture notes on Introduction to Cryptography by Vipul Goyal, and associated YouTube videos. 
  5. Foundations of Cryptography by Oded Goldreich. 

 

Evaluation

Credits breakdown: The credits (100%) are broken down as follows: 

  1. Four homework assignments (40%),
  2. In-class mid-term exam (15%),
  3. Final project (35%),
  4. Class participation (10%).

Homework Assignments: The assignment will be posted on Fridays at 11:59pm and will be due within a week. The solutions must be typeset in LATEX and submitted as a pdf. Please see the schedule below for release and due dates for homeworks.

Final project: Students can form groups of two. Each group will be assigned a topic along with suggestions of 1-2 research papers on that topic. The group is expected to submit a 3-5 page report (typeset in LATEX) along with a 30 mins in-class presentation on their findings. The format for the report and presentations will be discussed in class. Students are encouraged to choose a topic from this pre-populated list. Students can propose their own topic but instructor approval is required.

Class participation: To encourage class participation, each student is required to provide reviews on three student presentations. Once the schedule for the presentations is out, students can sign up for presentations they want to review. Each review must be about 1000 words (less is acceptable), and must demonstrate your understanding of the presentation's content, highlight positive aspects about the presentation, and suggest improvements that can be undertaken by the group. The reviews will be made available to the presenters in anonymized form at the end of the semester. Please be positive and constructive in your reviews!

(Suggested) Grading Scale:

A 100%-94%
A- 93.9%-90%
B+ 89.9%–87%
B 86.9%–84%
B- 83.9% - 80%
C+ 79.9%–77%
C 76.9%–74%
C- 73.9% - 70%
D+ 69.9%–67%
D 66.9%–64%
D- 63.9% - 60%
E 59.9%–0%

NEW: The final grading for this semester was done using an adjusted grading scale.

Late Submissions: Late submissions are highly discouraged. In case of any emergencies, please immediately consult with the instructor. The decision on accepting late submissions and/or the penalty imposed will lie solely with the instructor. 

[Updated 09/20/23]: Every student can submit one of the three remaining HWs upto two days after the actual deadline. Example, if the homework is due on Friday 11:59pm MT, you may submit it before Sunday 11:59pm MT. There is no penalty for the late submission but you can exercise this exception only once. Please let me know (e.g., by email) if you will be exercising this exception before the actual deadline (i.e., Fridays) of the corresponding HW.

Academic Integrity: For homework assignments, students are encouraged to discuss homework problems (in groups of at most two) but are expected to write solutions independently. The name of the collaborator must be indicated. Additionally, the students are expected to adhere to KSoC's academic code of conduct outlined here, Please also look at the semester guidelines by CoE and KSoC as outlined here and here.

Learning Outcomes

Throughout the course, we will make progress towards achieving the following five (+ two bonus) learning outcomes through lectures and other evaluation components:

  1. Recognize the important of having a formal framework for defining and arguing about security.
  2. Define the security for basic cryptographic objects like pseudo-random generators, pseudo-random functions, encryption schemes, and digital signatures.
  3. Understand the factoring assumption, discrete-log assumption, learning-with-error assumption, and their plausibility.
  4. Write security proofs for cryptographic algorithms covered in the class.
  5. Compare different constructions of cryptographic algorithms w.r.t. their (concrete/asymptotic) efficiency (e.g., is the RSA encryption scheme with 80-bit security more ``efficient" than the Elgamal encryption scheme with the same security level?).
  6. [Bonus]: Understand the security definitions for at least one of the following advanced cryptographic objects: zero-knowledge proofs, fully-homomorphic encryption, program obfuscation, CCA encryption.
  7. [Bonus]: Discuss the significance of cryptography in the context of blockchains/crypto-currencies. 

Class Communications

We will be using Canvas for all class-related activities including uploading homework assignments, final project report, and release of grades. To get in touch with the instructor, students can either use the Chat feature on Canvas or send an email by including "[CS6961]" in the subject. Additionally, students may use our Piazza account for discussions including posting questions (anonymously).

Schedule

Following is a tentative schedule for the semester. It is meant to give you an idea of the topics, but note that some of the topics may be altered depending on the pace and comfort of the class.

Week Date Lecture Contents
1 8/22/23

Course Organization

  • What is Modern Cryptography?
  • Paradigms of "Provable Security".
  • Historic Ciphers and their insecurity.

Learn LATEX, Overleaf

Lecture 1 notes
8/24/23

Perfect Secrecy & One-time Pad Encryption Scheme

  • Defining perfect secrecy for encryption schemes.
  • One-time pad encryption scheme.
  • Shannon's theorem and implications.

 

Lecture 2 notes
2 8/29/23

Pseudorandom Generators - 1

  • Computational indistinguishability.
  • Defining pseudorandom generators (PRGs).
  • Examples of PRGs and non-PRGs.
  • Introduction to hybrid arguments.

 

Lecture 3 notes
8/31/23

Pseudorandom Generators - 2

  • Review of hybrid arguments via an example.
  • Modular arithmetic in Z*_N.
  • The factoring assumption.
  • Blum-Blum-Shub PRG from factoring.

HW1 open

Lecture 4 notes
3 9/5/23

PRG Applications: Coin-tossing and Stream Ciphers

  • Bit commitments and coin-tossing from PRGs
  • Stream Ciphers from PRGs and Semantic Security
  • Attacks on Stream Ciphers in Practice (two-time pad, malleability) 

 

Lecture 5 notes
9/7/23

Block Ciphers and PRFs

  • Introduction to Block Ciphers
  • An abstraction: Pseudorandom Functions and Permutations
  • (Non)-examples of PRFs
  • Block cipher encryption modes: ECB and DCM

HW1 due

Lecture 6 notes
4 9/12/23

More Block Ciphers

  • Brief history of DES design and attacks
  • Feistel construction and its security for 1, 2, and 3 rounds
  • Review of Assignment 1 and discussion of hybrid arguments 

 

Lecture 7 notes

A Note on Hybrid Arguments
9/14/23

Chosen Plaintext Attack (CPA) Security for Encryption

  • Switching Lemma: Is a block-cipher a good PRF?
  • Motivation for CPA security and its definition
  • Deterministic Encryption is not CPA secure

HW2 open

Lecture 8 notes
5 9/19/23

Constructions of CPA-secure encryption schemes

  • From semantically-secure encryption scheme and a PRF.
  • From block-cipher in CTR mode.
  • From block-cipher in CBC mode.
  • An efficiency and security comparison of CTR and CBC modes.

 

Lecture 9 notes
9/21/23

Message Authentication

  • Motivating examples
  • Definition of a Message Authentication Code (MAC)
  • A short-input MAC from a PRF
  • Prefix-free PRFs: CBC and Cascade Constructions
  • Extension attacks on CBC and Cascade

HW2 due

Lecture 10 notes
6 9/26/23

Message Authentication II

  • Prefix-free PRFs to PRFs via prefix-free encodings
  • Prefix-free PRFs to PRF via encrypted method
  • Encrypted CBC (ECBC) and optimality of the bound, Nested MAC (NMAC), Parallel MAC (PMAC)
  • MAC Combiners

 

Lecture 11 notes
9/28/23

Collision-Resistant Hash Functions

  • Motivating example: File integrity checking
  • Definition
  • Application 1: MACs for longer messages
  • Application 2: Merkle trees (authenticated data structures)

 

Lecture 12 notes
7 10/3/23

Collision-Resistant Hash Functions II

  • The Merkle-Damgard Construction Paradigm
  • Case-studies: SHA1, SHA256/SHA512, SHA3
  • The HMAC standard

 

Lecture 13 notes
10/5/23 Mid-term Exam
8 10/10/23 Fall break
10/12/23 Fall break
9 10/17/23

Key Exchange Protocols

  • Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
  • Hardness assumptions: DL, CDH, DDH
  • (Im)-possibility of efficient key-exchange from PRGs
  • Minicrypt and Cryptomania
 Lecture 17 notes
10/19/23

Public-Key Encryption 1

  • Recap of DL, CDH, DDH
  • PKE motivation, applications
  • Semantic-security and CPA-security
  • Elgamal encryption

HW3 open

Lecture 18 notes
10 10/24/23

Public-Key Encryption 2

  • The RSA problem (and its relatives)
  • Key-agreement from RSA
  • PKE from RSA in the random oracle model
  • Accumulators from RSA (Self Study)

 

Lecture 19 notes
10/26/23

Public-Key Encryption 3

  • Security proof of the RSA encryption in the random oracle model

CPA-security proof of RSA

HW3 due
11 10/31/23

Chosen Ciphertext Security 1

  • examples of active attacks on CPA-secure schemes
  • defining CCA security
  • CCA insecurity of RSA and Elgamal
 Lecture 21 notes
11/2/23

Chosen Ciphertext Security 2

  • RSA-PKCS1 standard
  • CCA attack on RSA-PKCS1 and SSL
  • RSA-OAEP standard (CCA-secure)
  • More on RSA's CCA-security

 

Lecture 22 notes
12 11/7/23

Digital Signatures

  • Motivating application: Software Distribution
  • RSA signatures (the full domain hash paradigm)
  • RSA PKCS1 standard (for signatures)
  • Bleichenbacher's attack (yet again)
  • Certificates and PKI
 Lecture 23 notes
11/9/23

Zero-knowledge Protocols 1

  • Schnorr's ID protocol for proving knowledge of discrete-logs
  • Honest-Verifier Zero-knowledge (a special case of ZK)
  • More HVZK protocols: Chaum-Pederson, Guillou-Quiquater

HW4 open

Lecture 24 notes
13 11/14/23

Zero-knowledge Protocols 2

  • Proving properties of encrypted data:
    • Plaintext equality
    • Plaintext is a bit
  • Full ZK (strengthening of HVZK to malicious verifiers)
  • Proving properties about graphs in ZK:
    • Graph isomorphism
    • Graph 3-coloring
 Lecture 25 notes
11/16/23

Overview of Cryptography in Blockchains

  • What is a blockchain?
  • Role of signatures, merkle-trees, ZK proofs in cryptocurrencies
  • Discussion

HW4 due

Talk by Prof. Dan Boneh
14 11/21/23

Fully-homomorphic Encryption (FHE) - 1

  • The Learning-with-errors (LWE) Problem; discussion on its security
  • SKE and PKE from LWE
  • PKE from LWE
  • Discussion on additive and multiplicative homomorphism of the PKE scheme

 

Lecture 27 notes
11/23/23 No Class due to Thanksgiving Day
15 11/28/23

Fully-homomorphic Encryption (FHE) - 2

  • Levelled FHE scheme
  • Discussion on additive and multiplicative homomorphism
  • Bootstrapping: Towards unbounded FHE via circular-security

Final Project Presentations:

  1. Sarabjeet on Homomorphic Encryption for Arithmetic of Approximate Numbers.

 

 

FHE Slides
11/30/23

Final Project Presentations:

  1. (Hemanth, Palguni) on Securing Secrets: The Double Ratchet Unveiled.
  2. Jackson on Attacks on RSA, DH, DSA in the Wild.

Double Ratchet Slides

Attacks on RSA,DH, DSA Slides
16 12/5/23

Final Project Presentations:

  1. (Albert, Phillip) on Zero knowledge Proofs for Proving Program Safety
  2. (Seng, Toshi) on Commitments to Polynomials and Their Applications

 

UNSAT in ZK Slides

Polynomial Commitment Slides
12/7/23

Final Project Presentations:

  1. Prashant on Circular-Secure Encryption from Decision Diffie-Hellman
  2. Ganesh on Fast Cryptographic Primitives and Circular-Secure Encryption Based on Hard Learning Problems

Circular-security from DDH

Circular-security from Learning Problems

Final reports due

 

 

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