Undergraduate and Graduate Projects

Scope

Every semester, LASEC hosts a few students for their semester project or diploma work. Project descriptions are available below:

• available projects, (EPFL ONLY or GASPAR AUTH)
• ongoing projects, (EPFL ONLY or GASPAR AUTH)
• completed projects.

More Information

• The contact person for the projects is Alexandre Duc.
• Students should read the general guidelines before applying for a project.
  

 Courses

Advanced Cryptography

Master Course (Spring semester)

Serge Vaudenay (Lectures)
Alexandre Duc (Exercises)

Scope

To become familiar with advanced topics of cryptography, to have critical sense of cryptographic tools.

Contents

• The Cryptography Zoo
• Cryptanalysis (Public-Key, Conventional)
• The Power of Interaction
• Proving Security

More Information

• Moodle (Annoucements and Materials for the course)

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Student Seminar: Security Protocols and Applications

Master Course (Spring semester)

Serge Vaudenay and Philippe Oechslin
Ioana Boureanu (Coordinator)

Scope

We will look at today's most popular security protocols and new kinds of techniques and problems that will play an emerging role in the future. This course will be held as a seminar, in which the students shall actively participate. The talks will be assigned to teams of one or two students. Each team will give a 35 minutes talk, answer to other students' questions and write a 3-4 pages summary on the selected subject. The talks can be given either in French or in English. A copy of the slides (in pdf format, also provided by each team) shall be made available online before each presentation.

More Information

• Web site of the course (EPFL ONLY or GASPAR AUTH)

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Cryptography and Security

Master Course (Fall semester)

Scope

Introduce basic cryptography: identify security issues, identify cryptographic primitives, understand how to use them, understand how they can be implemented, assimilate necessary notions to understand how they operate To understand the threats to which computer networks are exposed, to know how to protect a network using appropriate technical and organisational measures. To introduce basic cryptography: how to implement it, how to use it.

Contents

• Cryptography prehistory. Shannon secrecy.
• Applied number theory.
• Cryptozoology: symmetric encryption, hashing, message authentication, public-key cryptography, signature, key agreement.
• Elements of cryptanalysis: exhaustive search, birthday paradox, algorithmic complexity.
• Communication security.
• Trust establishment. Public-key infrastructure, identity-based cryptography.
• Privacy. RFID technology.
• Case studies: wireless Communication (telephony, WiFi, Bluetooth, W-USB), biometric passport, secure transactions over the Internet (SSL, SSH, PGP).

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Network Security

Bachelor Course (Fall semester)

Scope

To understand the threats to which computer networks are exposed, to know how to protect a network using appropriate technical and organisational measures.

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