Introduction to Cryptography 203.4444 - Winter 2013


Winter 2013 General Information

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Exam grades below 46 will not be combined with the grades of the exercises!

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Lecture slides:

TopicLectureSlidesVideoComments
Introduction25/10,1/11PDFPart 1 Part 2The true story of Alice and Eve
Shannon's Theory of Secrecy Systems1/11,8/11PDFPart 1 Part 2 
Block Ciphers: DES and AES8/11,15/11,22/11,29/11PDFPart 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 
Hash Functions, One-Time Signatures, and MACs29/11,6/12,13/12PDFPart 1 Part 2 Part 3 
Introduction to Number TheoryRead at homePDF  
Public Key Cryptography part I13/12,20/12PDFPart 1 Part 2 
Number Theory - Part II20/12, 27/12PDFPart 1 Part 2 
Public Key Cryptography part II27/12,3/1,10/1PDFPart 1 Part 2 Part 3 
Zero Knowledge Proofs10/1,20/1,24/1PDFPart 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 
Secret Sharing24/1PDFPart 1 

Slides are in PDF format. I may change the slides a little bit before and after the lecture. Be aware of changes.


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Homework

Submission is to Orr's mailbox (#19) only.

Assignment Due Comments
Exercise 1 22/11/12, 1:00 p.m. Ciphertext for question 1, Ciphertext for question 2
Exercise 2 13/12/12, 1:00 p.m.  
Exercise 3 27/12/12, 1:00 p.m.  
Exercise 4 13/1/13, 1:00 p.m.  
Exercise 5 27/1/13, 1:00 p.m.  


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