PV181 Laboratory of security
and applied cryptography
Course organization
Marek Sýs
syso@mail.muni.cz, A405
Course info
• Practical focus (hands-on) - working with tools and
libraries
• Style of seminars may vary (different lecturers) but:
– small intro at the beginning of every seminar (no lectures)
with materials and tasks
– individual work = coding
• Discussion:
– Ask tutor within the seminar when you got stuck,
– IS discussion group if everybody might be interested (e.g.
if assignment is not clear)
Seminars overview
• 1x RNG (Sys)
• 1x ASN1 (Sys)
• 2x Basic Crypto concepts (Chmielewski)
• 3x Crypto libs in C (Broz) - OpenSSL and various libs
• 1x Advanced crypto concepts (Chmielewski) – OpenSSL, EC (python)
• 1x Standards (Riha)
• 1x Java crypto Architecture and Extensions (Chmielewski)
• 1x Crypto-libraries protected against hardware attacks (Chmielewski)
• 1x Biometrics (Kruzikova, Galanska)
• Extra (voluntary, bonus points): 28.09 Binary Exploitation (Patnaik)
Assignments
• Homeworks/assignments
– 10 points maximum
– 10 assignments (100 points + 10), one extra seminar
(28.09) with bonus points
– 65 % required (i.e. 65 points or 50 points)
– Submit files into is.muni.cz
– Points for your HW within one week in is.muni.cz
– plagiarism is strictly forbidden:
• source of the copied code must be cited
Credit/colloquium
• To get the credit or colloquium
– You must be present at seminars (2 absences OK)
– You must be active at seminars
– You must submit assignments and get:
• 50 % of maximum number of points for the credit
• 65 % of maximum number of points for the colloquium