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Course Summary Learning Objectives Expected Background Program Outline About the Lecturers Apply
Cryptography and Computer Security [6.87s]
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Date: July 28-August 1, 2008 (Register by June 27th)
Tuition: $2,900 | Continuing Education Units (CEUs): 3.0
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* Course schedule and registration times
Registration Deadline
* We recommend applying by June 27th to reserve your place. Please contact professionalinstitute@mit.edu after that date to see if seats are still available.
Course Summary
Discover how cryptography can be used to meet challenges posed by the internet. Covers encryption, authentication and key distribution, as well as the design of secure protocols for applications such as e-commerce and electronic elections.
Fundamentals: Core concepts, understandings and tools (50%)
Latest Developments: Recent advances and future trends (25%)
Industry Applications: Linking theory and real-world (25%)
Lecture: Delivery of material in a lecture format (80%)
Discussion or Groupwork: Participatory learning (20%)
Introductory: Appropriate for a general audience (95%)
Specialized: Assumes experience in practice area or field (5%)
Learning Objectives
- Describe the design and analysis of cryptographic algorithms and protocols.
- Examine the state of the art of cryptographic algorithms and protocols available today.
- Understand the notion of provable security and constructions of proven secure schemes for a variety of basic cryptographic tasks.
- Analyze cryptography challenges and opportunities presented by the Internet, addressing basic tasks such as encryption, authentication, and key distribution, and more advanced tasks such as electronic commerce, distributed lotteries, and electronic elections.
Expected Background
We will assume a typical college background in algorithms and mathematics for computer science students. In general, ease with computer algorithms concepts is highly recommended.
Program Outline
Daily Schedule:
Class runs 9:00 am - 5:00 pm every day except Friday when it ends
at 3:00 pm.
Each morning will be devoted to two lectures, separated by a coffee break. After lunch there will be either two lectures, or one lecture and a problem/discussion session. On the last day of the course, the afternoon will be devoted to discussion of particular topics in security relevant to the particular students attending.
Registration Times
Registration is on Monday morning from 7:15 - 8:45 am.
About The Lecturers
Shafi Goldwasser
RSA Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Dept of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at MIT. Prof. Goldwasser is a co-leader of the Cryptography and Information Security Group and a member of the Complexity Theory Group within the Theory of Computation Group and the Laboratory for Computer Science.
For more information on Prof. Goldwasser's research and teaching activities you may visit http://people.csail.mit.edu/shafi/.
Mihir Bellare
Professor in the Dept of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California San Diego.
For more information on Prof. Bellare's research and teaching activities you may visit http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~mihir.
