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Course information

Course goals

After the course, the student should be able to

  • describe the general principles of information theoretic security
  • explain fundamental concepts and tools of information theoretic security such as
    perfect secrecy, wiretap codebook, secret sharing codebook, secrecy capacity, secret
    key capacity etc.
  • prove the most fundamental theorems in the subject of information theoretic security
  • using the concepts and tools in the area to formulate the problem and solve them in
    new setups

Course disposition

The course consists of the following learning activities

  • Online lectures and reflections
  • Problem solving
  • Research paper presentation

The course is worth 8hp and classified as advanced graduate course in the EE doctoral program.

Pass criterion

To pass the course, the student has

  • accomplished at least 6 themes of the online lectures
  • achieved at least 28 points from the problem solving
  • successully presented a research paper

More details can be found on the corresponding pages.

Registration and course start

Once the course is developed (expected autumn 2015), the course can be taken at any time and also remote studies will be supported. At the moment, the course is not considered to be open for external students. Please contact Tobias Oechtering if you are interested.

Course history and development

An ealier version of this course has been  previously taught and developed by Somayen Salimi and Tobias Oechtering in autumn 2013. The objective of this course revision is to make the course more flexible and open in content and operation.