Introduction

This course will offer a fundamental understanding of security of block ciphers.

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is currently one of the most researched block ciphers in academia and widely used both in government and in commerce. Considering this fact, the explanations in this course are mainly oriented to the security of AES.

Lecturer Intro

Dr. Chengdong Tao got his Ph.D from South China University of Technology in 2015. Then he became an engineer at Shenzhen Huawei Technology Co., Ltd., and Executive Director and General Manager at Guangzhou Liangjian Technology Co., Ltd.. From 2020, he has been an Assistant Research Fellow of Yanqi Lake Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications.

Research Interests include Computational Algebra, Post-quantum Cryptography, Fast Implementation.