Theory and Logic Seminar

Autumn Semester 1999: Cryptology
Main coordinator: Prof Achim Jung
Topics
- Introduction to finite groups, rings and fields
- Old directions in Cryptography. A Diffie-Hellman retrospective
- What is RSA and how does it work
- Zero knowledge proofs
- The Needham-Schroeder authentication protocol - breaking, fixing and breaking the fixes!
- Perceptually based digital watermarking for images
- BAN logic