Miguel Afonso Caetano@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org
Welcome to the website for the Applied Cryptography course at the American University of Beirut! This page serves as a unified and self-sufficient source of truth on everything concerning your course.
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Course Description: Applied Cryptography explores the core theory of modern cryptography and how to apply these fundamental principles to build and analyze real-world secure systems. We start with foundational concepts—such as Kerckhoff's Principle, computational hardness, and provable security—before moving on to key cryptographic primitives like pseudorandom generators, block ciphers, and hash functions. Building on this solid groundwork, we will survey how these technologies power critical real-world deployments such as TLS, secure messaging protocols (e.g., Signal), and post-quantum cryptography. We will also delve into specialized topics like high-assurance cryptographic implementations, elliptic-curve-based systems, and zero-knowledge proofs to give you a complete understanding of contemporary cryptography's scope and impact. By the end of the semester, you will have gained both a rigorous theoretical perspective and practical hands-on experience, enabling you to evaluate, design, and implement cryptographic solutions."
https://appliedcryptography.page
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