Summary for Week 8

• Lecture 10: We took a short detour and discussed zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP). Note that ZKP will not feature in homeworks or tests. We covered threshold cryptography. Specifically we covered Shamir's scheme for secret splitting.
  Date: Tu, 10/19/2010.
• Lecture 11: We discussed a question about RSA from HW 2. Then we covered the following applications of cryptographic primitives covered so far: bit commitment scheme and Merkle hash trees.
  Date: Th, 10/21/2010.