TheIACR Courses

Correcting Subverted Random Oracles

Explores techniques to correct subverted random oracles in cryptography, addressing security vulnerabilities and proposing solutions for preventing attacks on hash functions and chain takeovers.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Verifiable Delay Functions

Explore verifiable delay functions, their security properties, and applications in random beacons and stock price manipulation prevention. Learn about various constructions and optimizations.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Threshold Cryptosystems From Threshold Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Explore threshold cryptosystems derived from threshold fully homomorphic encryption, covering key management, signatures, and public key encryption, with insights on security definitions and techniques.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Certified Randomness from Quantum Supremacy

Explore quantum supremacy, certified randomness, and their implications in cryptography with Scott Aaronson's insightful presentation on cutting-edge quantum computing concepts.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

From Idea to Impact, the Crypto Story - What's Next?

Explore the intersection of cryptography and machine learning, examining challenges, impacts, and future directions in digital privacy, adversarial learning, and quantum resilience.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Statistical Witness Indistinguishability -and More- in Two Messages

Explore statistical witness indistinguishability in interactive proofs, focusing on reducing interaction while maintaining secrecy and statistical zero knowledge.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

A New Distribution Sensitive Secure Sketch and Popularity Proportional Hashing

Explores new techniques for secure password storage and authentication, including distribution-sensitive secure sketches and popularity proportional hashing, to enhance security against online and offline attacks.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Information Theoretic Indistinguishability via the Chi Squared Method

Explore information theoretic indistinguishability using the Chi squared method, covering problem overview, description, and conclusions in cryptography research.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Indifferentiability of Iterated Even Mansour Ciphers with Non Idealized Key Schedules

Explores indifferentiability of iterated Even-Mansour ciphers with non-idealized key schedules, presenting novel approaches and strategies for enhancing block cipher security.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Key Rotation for Authenticated Encryption

Explores key rotation techniques for authenticated encryption, discussing hybrid approaches, confidentiality, secret sharing, and attack models. Analyzes performance and concludes with insights.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Bitcoin as a Transaction Ledger - A Composable Treatment

Explore Bitcoin's transaction ledger through a composable treatment, examining block structure, functionality, and key concepts in blockchain technology.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Ratcheted Encryption and Key Exchange - The Security of Messaging

Explore ratcheted encryption and key exchange in secure messaging, covering concepts, generic compilation, and a tricky exchange implementation with motivation and proof.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Proof Systems in Cryptography - TCC 2023 Session

Explore cutting-edge developments in cryptographic proof systems at this IACR conference session, featuring expert presentations on recent advancements and theoretical breakthroughs.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Theoretical Foundations in Cryptography - TCC 2023 Opening Session

Opening remarks and talks on theoretical cryptography foundations, covering topics like pseudorandom generators, one-way functions, key-alternating ciphers, public-key encryption, and verifiable outsourcing.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Cryptographic Hardness Amplification - Invited Talk

Explore cryptographic concepts and advancements with Iftach Haitner's insightful presentation at the Theory of Cryptography Conference 2023.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video