Modul

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Students
• have in-depth knowledge of cryptography and IT security
• know and understands sophisticated techniques and security primitives to achieve the protection goals
• know and understand scientific evaluation and analysis methods of IT security (game-based formalization of confidentiality and integrity, security and anonymity notions)
• have a good understanding of types of data, personal data, legal and technical fundamentals of privacy protection
• know and understand the fundamentals of system security (buffer overflow, return-oriented programming, ...)
• know different mechanisms for anonymous communication (TOR, Nym, ANON) and can assess their effectivity

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This advanced mandatory module deepens different topics of IT security. These include in particular:
• Elliptic curve cryptography
• Threshold cryptography
• Zero-knowledge proofs
• Secret sharing
• Secure multi-party computation and homomorphic encryption
• Methods of IT security (game-based analysis and the UC model)
• Crypto-currencies and consensus through proof-of-work/stake
• Anonymity on the Internet, anonymity with online payments
• Privacy-preserving machine learning
• Security of machine learning
• System security and exploits
• Threat modeling and quantification of IT security

Attendance of the lecture Information Security is recommended.

Course workload:
1. Attendance time: 56 h
2. Self-study: 56 h
3. Preparation for the exam: 68 h