Explores message authentication codes and their formalism, with a focus on mobile telephony, covering topics like misuse attacks, security notions, and GSM architecture.
Explores the formalism and security aspects of symmetric encryption systems, including block ciphers, variable length encryption, and security definitions.
Covers fundamental concepts of cryptography, including primitives, security, encryption, and authentication, exploring symmetric and public-key cryptography, key agreement, commitment schemes, and hash functions.
Explores the commitment scheme, key derivation function, and pseudorandom generator in cryptographic protocols, emphasizing their role in ensuring data integrity and authentication.