PHD school on block ciphers and their security

Course Location:

Seminar Room, Department of Mathematics,

Univ. of Trento, Italy.

Lab sesions: Lab of Industrial Mathematics and Cryptography

Lecturer: Prof. M. Sala (Trento, Italy)

Assistant: Dr. A. Rimoldi (Trento, Italy)

Full course programme

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• Monday 15 March 9.00-13.00, ---> Introduction to permutation groups

  Session lab ---> Introduction to the MAGMA software package

• Tuesday 16 March 09.00-13.00, ---> Finite field theory

  Session lab --> MAGMA and finite fields

• Wednesday 17 March 09.00-13.00, ---> Permutation polynomials

  Session lab

• Thursday 18 March 09.00-13.00, ---> Boolean functions

  Session lab

• Friday 19 March 09.00-13.00, ---> Notions of non-linearity for Boolean function

  Session lab

• Free weekend (with social trips)

• Monday 22 March 09.00-13.00, ---> Translation based cryptosystems

  Session lab

• Tuesday 23 March 09.00-13.00, ---> The role of the mixing layer and of the key-scheduling

  Session lab

• Wednesday 24 March 09.00-13.00, ---> Classical Feistel ciphers and their security

  Session lab

• Thursday 25 March 09.00-13.00, ---> Modern Feistel ciphers and their security

  Session lab

• Friday 26 March 09.00-13.00, ---> Other interesting block ciphers

  Session lab

Fees and registration

For any question, please contact Dr. Anna Rimoldi (rimoldi@science.unitn.it).