Asymmetric Cryptography

This lecture will address Asymmetric Cryptography and its use to both secure and authenticate communications.

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Mandatory Reading

One of:

• Segurança em Redes Informáticas, A. Zúquete, Chap. 2
• Ross Anderson, Security engineering, Third Edition Chapter 5.
• Security in Computing, 6th edition, Charles Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Lizzie Coles-Kemp, Chap. 2.3

Relevant References

• Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) cryptosystem
• RSA Factoring Challenge
• PKCS #1
• Optimal asymmetric encryption padding
• Digital signature
• Diffie-Hellman key exchange
• Elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman
• Elliptic curve
• Elliptic curve point multiplication
• Elliptic curve cryptography