Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologies

CS-523 / 8 credits

Teacher: Vacat .

Language: English

Remark: This course is a "depth" for Cyber Security master program and Cyber Security minor.

Summary

This advanced course will provide students with the knowledge to tackle the design of privacy-preserving ICT systems. Students will learn about existing technologies to prect privacy, and how to evaluate the protection they provide.

Content

The course will cover the following topics :

- Privacy definitions and concepts

- Privacy-preserving cryptographics solutions : anonymous credentials, zero-knowledge proofs, secure multi-party computation, homomorphic encryption, Private information retrieval (PIR), Oblivious RAM (ORAM)

- Anonymization and data hiding : generalization, differential privacy, etc

- Machine learning and privacy

- Protection of metadata : anonymous communications systems, location privacy, censorpship resistance

- Online tracking and countermeasures

- Privacy engineering : design and evaluation (evaluation metrics and notions)

- Legal aspects of privacy

 

Keywords

Privacy, anonymity, homomorphic encryption, secure multi-paty computation, anonymous credentials, ethics

Learning Prerequisites

Required courses

COM-301 Computer Security and Privacy

COM-402 Information Security and Privacy

Recommended courses

COM-401 Cryptography and Security

Important concepts to start the course

Basic programming skills; basics of probabilities and statistics; basics of cryptography

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, the student must be able to:

  • Select appropriately privacy mechanisms
  • Develop privacy technologies
  • Assess / Evaluate privacy protection
  • Reason about privacy concerns

Teaching methods

  • Lectures and written exercises to deepen understanding of concepts
  • Programming-oriented assignments to practice use of privacy technologies

 

Expected student activities

  • Participation in the lectures. Active participation is encouraged.
  • Participation in exercise session and complete the exercises regularly
  • Completion of programming assignments

 

Supervision

Assistants Yes

Resources

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In the programs

  • Semester: Spring
  • Exam form: Written (summer session)
  • Subject examined: Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologies
  • Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Type: mandatory
  • Semester: Spring
  • Exam form: Written (summer session)
  • Subject examined: Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologies
  • Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Type: mandatory
  • Semester: Spring
  • Exam form: Written (summer session)
  • Subject examined: Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologies
  • Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Type: optional
  • Semester: Spring
  • Exam form: Written (summer session)
  • Subject examined: Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologies
  • Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Type: optional
  • Semester: Spring
  • Exam form: Written (summer session)
  • Subject examined: Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologies
  • Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Type: mandatory
  • Semester: Spring
  • Exam form: Written (summer session)
  • Subject examined: Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologies
  • Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Type: mandatory
  • Semester: Spring
  • Exam form: Written (summer session)
  • Subject examined: Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologies
  • Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Type: optional
  • Semester: Spring
  • Exam form: Written (summer session)
  • Subject examined: Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologies
  • Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Type: optional
  • Exam form: Written (summer session)
  • Subject examined: Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologies
  • Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Type: optional
  • Semester: Spring
  • Exam form: Written (summer session)
  • Subject examined: Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologies
  • Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Type: optional

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