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\handout{0}{Prof. Rafail Ostrovsky}
{\sf \small First lecture: Monday, January 4th, 2-3:50PM}
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{\bf COURSE:} \underline{\sf FOUNDATIONS OF CRYPTOGRAPHY}; \\
{\bf Where:} ROYCE 156; \\
{\bf Prof:} Rafail Ostrovsky; \\
{\bf Office:} 3732D Boelter Hall; \\
{\bf When/where:} WINTER 2010, M,W 2-3:50pm ROYCE 146; \\
{\bf Course WEB PAGE:} \
\fbox{\texttt{http://www.cs.ucla.edu/\~\,rafail/CRYPTO.html}}


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\underline{\bf Description:} This is a graduate course that introduces students
to the theory of cryptography, stressing rigorous definitions and
proofs of security. Topics include notions of hardness, one-way
functions, hard-core bits, pseudo-random generators, pseudo-random
functions and pseudo-random permutations, semantic security,
public-key and private-key encryption, secret-sharing, message
authentication, digital signatures, interactive proofs, zero-knowledge
proofs, private information retrieval,
collision-resistant hash functions, commitment protocols,
key-agreement, contract signing and two-party secure computation with
static security.  \\
\underline{\bf Objectives:} This course is meant to
introduce students to up-to-date research in cryptography, including
modern cryptographic definitions and proofs of security. \\
\underline{\bf Prerequisites:} Mathematical maturity. \\
\underline{\bf Textbooks:} None. The course material will consists of on-line materials,
lecture
notes scribed by students and research papers in cryptography which
will be available either as class handouts or web-pointers. \\
\underline{\bf Grading Policy:} Class participation 5\%; midterm
 30\% ; Scribe notes 35\%; Final exam 30\%. All exams will be closed book. \\
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\underline{\bf Scribe notes:} You must revise (previous) scribe notes for at least one topic.
Each topic will span several lectures, and I expect the same team to cover each topic completely.
 The total
number of topics each team will cover will be determined by the number of students in the class.
The scribed lecture must update current lecture notes (written in \TeX\ format). We will
provide a template and you should email me asking for \TeX\ source code for whatever parts you are updating. It is important that you should not only check for correctness
of previous notes, fix all issues and improve readability, but also add whatever additional material I presented on each topic\underline.
You should not delete previous material from lecture notes, even if I did not manage to cover it it class, though if it is repetitive I expect you to consolidate it. You should also  make sure
that all notations are consistent when covering the same or related topic.
 Revised  scribe notes will
provide text for the class.
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