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ECE 598 DA - Info-Theoretic Cryptography

Last offered Fall 2026

Official Description

Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in electrical and computer engineering intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for topics and prerequisites. Course Information: May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary.

Section Description

we will study foundational and recent work on the use of information theory to design and analyze cryptographic protocols. In the first half of the course, we will study privacy attacks that motivate strong privacy and security definitions. Then, we will explore the basics of differential privacy. In the second half, we will study some core works on zero-knowledge proofs and watermarking of generative models.

Related Faculty

TitleSectionCRNTypeHoursTimesDaysLocationInstructor
Info-Theoretic CryptographyDA80770LEC41230 - 1350 T R  3013 Electrical & Computer Eng Bldg Daniel Alabi