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Advanced Topics in Cryptography
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This course will explore several exciting areas in cryptography at its own pace.

Topics

Identity-Based Encryption
Oblivious Transfer from IBE
Signatures from IBE
Signature Extensions
class choice

References

[BF01] Dan Boneh and Matthew Franklin. Identity-Based Encryption from the Weil Pairing. CRYPTO 2001.

[BB04] Dan Boneh and Xavier Boyen. Efficient Selective-ID Secure Identity Based Encryption Without Random Oracles. EUROCRYPT 2004.

[W05] Brent Waters. Efficient Identity-Based Encryption Without Random Oracles. EUROCRYPT 2005.

[GH07] Matthew Green and Susan Hohenberger. Blind Identity-Based Encryption and Simulatable Oblivious Transfer. ASIACRYPT 2007.

[G07] Vipul Goyal. Reducing Trust in the PKG in Identity Based Cryptosystems. CRYPTO 2007. (Zach Crisler)

[GLSW08] Vipul Goyal, Steve Lu, Amit Sahai, and Brent Waters. Accountable Authority Identity-Based Encryption. CCS 2008. (Zach Crisler, and Gabe?)

[SW05] Amit Sahai and Brent Waters. Fuzzy Identity Based Encryption. EUROCRYPT 2005.
Last modified: Friday, August 29, 2008