Last Updated: Mon, 04/13/2026
Syllabus
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General Class Information
Academic year:
2026
Semester:
Fall
Course prefix:
CS
Course number:
8803
Section:
027
CRN
58155
Department (you may add up to three):
Instructor first name:
Katrina
Instructor last name:
White-Johnson
Catalog Description

This course will introduce recent tools for programmable cryptography, such as zero-knowledge

proofs, multi-party computation, fully homomorphic encryption, private information retrieval,

differential privacy, and trusted execution environments. These tools take as input a computation,

and execute it securely and privately over some data, for different definitions of secure and private.

We will learn what these different tools can do, learn how they work internally, learn how to prove

security for some of them, and also write some code to use and implement them.