Computer Science 690J - Advanced Cryptography

This is a graduate-level course in advanced cryptographic primitives and protocols, with an eye toward their far-reaching applications in secure messaging, surveillance prevention, cloud computing, and privacy-preserving machine learning, among others. Topics may include: functional encryption, homomorphic encryption, multiparty computation, identification protocols, zero-knowledge proofs, authenticated key exchange, key ratcheting. Specific topics and schedule to be determined by student preferences. This course is a natural "second course" in cryptography, but we will review core concepts in the beginning to make it accessible to motivated students who have not studied cryptography before.

Open to Computer Science graduate students only. MATHEMATICAL MATURITY, BEING COMFORTABLE READING AND WRITING MATHEMATICAL PROOFS. SEATS SAVED FOR INCOMING GRAD STUDENT REGISTRATION. STUDENTS NEEDING SPECIAL PERMISSION MUST REQUEST OVERRIDES VIA THE ON-LINE FORM: https://www.cics.umass.edu/overrides.