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Topics from the course:

• Public Key Infrastructures: hierarchical architecture according to X.509, cross certification, qualified signatures PKI architecture: Poland, Germany, certificate X.509, obligatory fields, extensions (critical, non-critical) key revocation, CRL and OCSP
• Advanced signature algorithms: mediated signatures, undeniable signatures, fail-stop methods,
• E-ID: BAC, PACE, Terminal Authentication, Chip Authentication restricted identification (according to BSI), alternative anonymous ID protocol
• Key exchange and authentication: concept of quantum key exchange,
• Hardware protection: physically unclonable functions, TPM, smart cards: protection mechanism dependant on application area - optical cards, memory cards, prepaid cards, electronic wallet, signature cards, algorithmic mechanisms for cloning prevention: counters, undeniable clone detection via key compromise
• high performance computing for cryptanalysis: parallel computing basics, BSP style parallel processing, example algorithms for: list ranking, parallel prefix, connected components, multiplication of long numbers, evaluation of arithmetic expressions