Cryptography

Timetabling

• This course will be delivered in person this year; lectures will be recorded for the benefit of anybody who is unwell or self-isolating.
• It starts on Friday 21 January 2022 at 09:00, and runs Mon/Wed/Fri for 16 lectures.
• Note: there is no lecture on Wednesday 26 January; instead the last lecture will be on Monday 28 Feburary.
• Lectures will be in LT1 (not LT2 as originally announced).

Study materials

• Slide show (not suitable for printing)
• Slides with annotations made during lectures
• Handout – 4 slides per side of A4
• Large print version – 2 slides per side of A4
• Exercises (2up)
• Past exam questions
• Lecture recordings (Moodle)

Extra material (not examinable)

• 🐰🎨 Draft of “Secret Colors”, a children’s book on cryptography (Raven login required)
• Implementing Curve25519/X25519: A Tutorial on Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Related courses

• Discrete Mathematics (Proofs, Numbers, and Sets)
• Introduction to Probability
• Complexity Theory
• Last year’s course materials are still available, including the lecture recordings