Physical Aspects of Digital Security

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Description

Content:
The course covers a number of subjects where digital security is heavily influenced by interaction with the physical world:
True random number generation, key generation from common randomness, security with noisy data, Physical Unclonable Functions, privacy-preserving biometrics, fuzzy extractors, distance bounding.
The emphasis lies on the design of algorithms and protocols to cope with, and maximally exploit, the properties of the physical world.
No a priori knowledge of information theory is required. A background in probability theory, security and linear algebra definitely helps.

Objectives

Aims:
After finishing this course successfully, a student
(i) has mastered the basics of information theory and knows how to apply information theory to security-related algorithms that process physical measurements;
(ii) has a good understanding of Phyiscal Unclonable Functions and knows their areas of applicability as well as their limitations;

Method of Assessment