Lecture 7: Introduction to Galois Fields for the AES by Christof Paar

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a moderately formal, clear introduction to finite fields, useful beyond AES.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Introduction to Cryptography by Christof Paar

Topic

finite fields in cryptography

Format

lecture

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2020

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From the original HN conversations

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• While we're here, Christof Paar's 'Introduction to Cryptography' lecture series (freely available on YouTube here in English: [LINK] , originally delivered at Ruhr University Bochum) is a really excellent explanation of the internals of a number of crytographic algorithms. The lecture on Galois Fields ( …

• Galois fields are used in crypto a bit, and I recommend this lecture to understand it in the context of crypto [VIDEO] PS: He has an entire series of lectures on his channel. Highly recommend.

• if you want to learn finite fields somewhat more formally, but not so formally, this is a pretty good introduction (yes, it's for AES, but the principles are the same): [VIDEO]