EE720 Course Overview
Saravanan Vijayakumaran
Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay
August 2, 2023
Grading Policy
- Relative grading
- For AU, final score should be at CC level or above
- 5% Attendance, 10% Assignments, 20% Quizzes, 25% Midsem, 40% Endsem
- 0.3 marks per attended class upto a max of 5 marks
- Exams will be closed notes with no cribsheets allowed
- Key definitions will be provided in the question paper itself
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it!
– Upton Sinclair
It is difficult to get a student to understand something, when their grade depends on them not understanding it!
– SV
Reference Books
- Introduction to Modern Cryptography, Jonathan Katz, Yehuda Lindell, CRC Press, 2021 (3rd Edition). Main textbook
- Cryptography: Theory and Practice, Douglas R. Stinson, Maura B. Paterson, CRC Press, 2018 (4th Edition)
- A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra, Victor Shoup, Cambridge University Press, 2008 (2nd edition).
Prerequisites
- Asymptotic Notation (See Appendix A.2 of Katz & Lindell)
- Basic Probability (See Appendix A.3 of Katz & Lindell)
- Python programming
Course Plan
- Before midsem exam
- Classical Cryptography
- Private-Key Cryptography
- Selected topics from Chapters 1 to 7 of Katz & Lindell
- After midsem exam
- Public-Key Cryptography
- Selected topics from Chapters 9 to 15 of Katz & Lindell
Can CSE students register?
- EE720 has significant overlap with CS 406 Cryptography and Network Security
- Consult your faculty advisor before tagging EE720 as a department elective
Course Webpage
https://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~sarva/courses/EE720/Autumn2023.html
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