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.
Provides an overview of time-lock encryption and its practical applications, focusing on threshold time-lock encryption algorithms and their security properties.