Seminar Zero-Knowledge

Welcome on the pages for the seminar on zero-knowledge!

The seminar takes place on friday at 13:15 in room A314.


Here is the program with all talks. As we have more talks now, each talk should be about 60 minutes.


Some slides

My slides for the first lecture.

Andreas Maletti's slides on IP = PSPACE.


Additional material

Here are some slides for various topics of cryptography. You might also find the slides for the previous lecture on cryptography helpful.

bitcoin - Ein kritischer Blick

Komplexitätstheoretische Grundlagen

Blinde Signaturen, geheime Abstimmungen und digitale Münzen


Some very good abstracts of students for the talks

Chris Becker: Alpenhorn

Sebastian Gottwald: Das Dual-EC-DRBG Desaster

Maximilian Heinrich: Polyalphabetische Verschlüsselung in der frühen Neuzeit und die Machina Deciphratoria von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Tim Niehoff: Kryptographische Verfahren in der griechischen und römischen Antike

Hannes Thalheim: Einführung in digitale Signaturen

Marius Wagner: Das Signal-Protokoll