Azioni di Gruppo Crittografiche
| The PhD course Azioni di Gruppo Crittografiche will be taught by Giuseppe D'Alconzo (Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche del Politecnico di Torino).
Course presentation: The goal of the course is to introduce group action-based cryptography, a field that has been flourishing in recent years, so much so that it is featured with three proposals in NIST's 2023 Post-Quantum call. Several applications based on recent findings from the literature will be described, with a special focus on digital signatures, the subject of the aforementioned call. |
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Course syllabus:
- Introduction to groups and group actions.
- The use of group actions in cryptography and related computational problems.
- Cryptographic construction from Abelian and non-Abelian actions.
- Digital signatures: sigma protocols, variants and optimizations.
- The LESS digital signature scheme.
- Advanced topics and current research directions.
Course schedule:
- Monday, April 13, 14:30–16:30 (Aula seminari)
- Tuesday, April 14, 14:30–16:30 (Aula seminari)
- Wednesday, April 15, 14:30–16:30 (Aula seminari)
- Thursday, April 16, 14:30–16:30 (Aula seminari)
- Friday, February 17, 10:30–12:30 (Aula seminari)
- Monday, April 20, 14:30–16:30 (Aula seminari)
- Tuesday, April 21, 14:30–16:30 (Aula seminari)
- Wednesday, April 22, 14:30–16:30 (Aula seminari)
- Thursday, April 23, 14:30–16:30 (Aula seminari)
- Friday, February 24, 14:30–16:30 (Aula seminari)