Theme: Computer Security
Lecture: Understanding Cryptography: From Caesar to Public-Key

A few questions addressed in the lecture

		Thursday 3 March
15:30 - 16:25	Lecture 4	Understanding Cryptography: From Caesar to Public-Key	Nicola Chiapolini Universität Zürich - Switzerland
		Presentation In this lecture we start by explaining a selection of simple cryptographic algorithms as well as the methods to attack them. We then try and show how these basic algorithms evolved over time into the modern ones and give simple examples of how he recent algorithms work. As a illustration, we will turn to one of the most challenging exercise given at CSC2010 in the "Writing Secure software" class (that is the "HTML-riddle problem" ) in order to show how this knowledge can to solve the problem posed.
		Benefits After this lecture, the attendees should not only understand how modern cryptographic algorithms developed, but also master their basic principles.
		Audience This lecture targets everyone who wants to understand what is going on when using encryption or who is interested in riddles..
		Pre-requisite This lecture can be followed by anyone. The ability to understand simple programs will help nevertheless.

Questions

Are modern encryption systems really secure?

What lessons after 2000 years of encryption?

Ever wondered how asymmetric ciphers work?

How can you keep your secrets?

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