Secure and Reliable Communication

The program comprises courses in the fields of coding theory, information theory, cryptography, network information theory, and network security. Each student also undertakes a masters thesis in conjunction with a supervisor on a relevant topic. The courses are each undertaken over a single semester and will be assessed by a combination of assignments and end-of-semester examinations. For more detailed descriptions of course contents please link to the relevant course details.

Programme profile
The group conducts research in the field of secure communication at a high international level. It has good contacts in the international community and has been regularly involved in organization of many international conferences. The group has been evaluated as ¿Excellent¿ in all three the evaluations of ICT groups in Norway initiated by the Research Council of Norway.

Master projects will be of theoretical or practical nature. Projects are selected to give candidates an insight into problems of interest at the frontier of international research in design of cryptographic primitives, state-of-art cryptanalysis, post quantum cryptography, quantum computing and information theory, coding theory, etc.