Tutorials on the Foundations of Cryptography

Yehuda Lindell is a professor in the Dept. of Computer Science of Bar-Ilan University; his main research interests are in the field of cryptography, focusing on secure protocols, and questions of feasibility and efficiency. Benny Applebaum is a professor at the School of Electrical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University; his main interests are the foundations of cryptography and computational complexity. Boaz Barak is the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University; his research interests include all areas of theoretical computer science and in particular cryptography and computational complexity. Andrej Bogdanov is an associate professor in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering and an associate director of the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science and Communications at The Chinese University of Hong Kong; his research interests are computational complexity and the foundations of cryptography. Iftach Haitner is a faculty member in the School of Computer Science at Tel-Aviv University; his main interests are cryptography and computational complexity. Shai Halevi is a Principal Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, with research interests in cryptography. Alon Rosen is a professor in the School of Computer Science at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center (IDC); his main interests are cryptography and computational complexity. Salil Vadhan is the Vicky Joseph Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University; his research areas include computational complexity, cryptography, randomness in computation, and data privacy.

Garbled Circuits as Randomized Encodings of Functions: A Primer.- The Complexity of Public-Key Cryptography.- Pseudorandom Functions: Three Decades Later.- The Many Entropies in One-Way Functions.- Homomorphic Encryption.- How to Simulate It: A Tutorial on the Simulation Proof Technique.- The Complexity of Differential Privacy.