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General Information

Logistics
Lectures: Tuesday 14:15-17:00 in person in INF 1.
Live Exercise Solving: Friday 10:15 - 11:00 in person in INM 202 and INR 219.
Project / Exercise Q&A Time: Friday 11:15 - 13:00 in person in INR 219.
Lecturers: Dr. Theresa Stadler,  Prof. Carmela Troncoso and guests.
Assistants: Mathilde Raynal, Neelu Kalani, Boya Wang, Christian Knabenhans, Malo Perez, Eric Jollès, Shailesh Mishra,Saiid El Hajj Chehade

Help and office hours

Forum: Please use Ed discussion as the first avenue to get your questions answered.

Email address for other questions: cs523@groupes.epfl.ch

Student hours: Please use the exercise sessions as a first option for you to get your questions answered. If you have a question about a specific project part, please sign up for a time slot with the responsible TA here. This way we can ensure the right person is free to help you. If you need more help, please ask for an appointment with one of the teaching staff via email.


Grading

There will be three graded activities:

  • Two projects where you will experiment with the course concepts
  • One written midterm (April 8th)
  • One written final exam (To be decided)
Grading scheme:
  • Projects constitute 40% of the grade. There will be two projects. The first project will count 15% and the second project will count 25%.
  • The midterm constitutes 20% of the grade.
  • The final exam constitutes 40% of the grade.
  • The grades of the activities will be combined as follows:
    0.15*project1_grade + 0.25*project2_grade + 0.2*midterm_grade + 0.4*exam_grade

About the midterm/final exam
Midterm

  • The midterm will be on the 8th April in the 14-17h Tuesday slot. 
  • The midterm will ask questions about the material from the first 7 weeks of the class. 
  • The questions will be in the same vein as the ones that are proposed for the exercise sessions.
  • The midterm will be closed book (One 2-sided A4 cheat-sheet is allowed), and will have to be taken on Campus
Final exam

  • The final exam will take place on Wednesday 18.06.2025 from 15h15 to 18h15 (SG 1138).
  • The final exam will test your understanding of all class materials.
  • The questions will be in the same vein as the ones that are proposed for the exercise sessions.
  • The exam will be closed book (Two 2-sided A4 cheat-sheets are allowed), and will have to be taken on Campus
 

Programming Projects

  • Programming projects Github repo
  • Team Registration Form
  • Projects submission
    • Project SMCompiler submission deadline is 28th March, 2025 at 23:59. 
    • Project SecretStroll submission deadline is 30th May, 2025 at 23:59.
    • Only 1 member per team needs to upload their project submission via moodle. 

Preliminaries

Introduction (18 Feb - 21 Feb)

Privacy-Preserving Crypto I (25 Feb - 28 Feb)

Privacy-Preserving Crypto II ( 4 Mar - 7 Mar)

Legal aspects (11 Mar - 14 Mar)

Privacy-Preserving Authentication (18 Mar - 21 Mar)

Privacy-Preserving Data Publishing (Part I) (25 Mar - 28 Mar)

Privacy-preserving Data Publishing (Part II) (1 Apr - 4 Apr)

Midterm Exam

Location Privacy (15 April - 18 April)

Anonymous Communications (29 April - 2 May)

Tracking (6 May - 9 May)

Censorship Resistance (13 May - 16 May)

Machine Learning (20 May - 23 May)

Privacy Engineering (27 May - 30 May)

Final Exam 2024

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