Introduction to Cryptography (203.3444/203.4444) Homepage - Spring Semester 2010


Spring 2010 General Information

Syllabus:

Course's staff

Class hours

Exam dates

Grading policy

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

Prerequisites and Requirements


Announcements


Lecture slides:

TopicLectureSlides
Introduction 22/2,1/3 PDF
Shannon's Theory of Secrecy Systems 1/3 PDF
Block Ciphers and Modes of Operation 8/3,15/3 PDF     Animation of AES
Hashing, One-Time Singatures, and MACs 22/3, 29/3 PDF
Introduction to Number Theory 29/3, 5/4 PDF
Public Key Cryptography part I 5/4,12/4 PDF
Intorduction to Number Theory part II 12/4,3/5 PDF
Public Key Cryptography part II 3/5,24/5 PDF
Zero Knowledge Protocols 24/5,31/5,14/6 PDF
Secret Sharing Schemes 14/6 PDF

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


Recommended reference material

On-line material

Relevant Links


Homework

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

Assignment Due Comments
Ex. 1 Sunday, 27/3, 1:00 p.m. Ciphertext of the first question
Ciphertext of the second question
Ex. 2 Sunday, 10/4, 1:00 p.m.  
Ex. 3 Wednesday, 4/5, 1:00 p.m.  
Ex. 4 Wednesday, 25/5, 1:00 p.m.  
Ex. 5 Tuesday, 14/6 Note that question 5 is not for submission (you can submit afterwards to get feedback if you like)


Past Exams