Introduction to security, digital document definition and law implications, basic cryptography (public-key, private-key, hashes), digital signatures, blind signatures, side-channel attack principles.
Research results on the parallelization of cryptographic algorithms on parallel architectures (next lecture).
Side-channel attacks in general and in computing systems (Meltdown and Spectre attacks)
A comprehensive video explaining Meltdown and Spectre attacks and some countermeasures (focus only on Meltdown for our course) from Professor Mark Handley, UCL (UK), The Alan Turing Institute
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