| Date | Lecture | Assigned Reading | What is Due | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | ||||
| 8/27 | Historical Cryptography.
Intro to Sage and Latex. Classical Cryptography: Substitution and Caesar cipher |
Section 1.1 and 1.2 | ||
| 8/29 | Classical Cryptography: Cryptanalysis, the affine cipher and modular arithmetic (Multiplication table modulo 26) |
, | Section 1.3 and 1.4 | Homework 0 |
| Week 2 | ||||
| 9/3 | Classical Cryptography: Vigenere, Cipher | Notes | Link | Group Discussion Questions 1 |
| 9/5 | Hill Cipher | Notes | ||
| Week 3 | ||||
| 9/10 | Euclid's algorithm Quiz 1 (practice) | Notes | Sections 6.3.1 and 6.3.2 | Project 1 (Vigenere) |
| 9/12 | Stream Ciphers, the one time pad and perfect secrecy | Notes | Sections 2.1 and 2.2 | |
| Week 4 | ||||
| 9/17 | LFSRs | Notes | Section 2.3 | Group Discussion Questions Week 3 |
| 9/19 | Confusion, Diffusion, DES and Finite FIelds | Notes | Sections 3.1, 4.3 | Homework 1 |
| Week 5 | ||||
| 9/24 | Finite Fields, AES S-Boxes Quiz 2 (practice) | Notes | Sections 4.3, 4.4 | Project 2 |
| 9/26 | Simpliefied AES | Notes | Group Discussion Questions (Practice, not collected) | |
| Week 6 | ||||
| 10/1 | Decrypting SAES, SAES Practice, Midterm Review | Notes | ||
| 10/3 | Midterm 1 | |||
| Week 7 | ||||
| 10/8 | Modes of Operation | |||
| 10/10 | Double Encryption, Meet in the middle attacks | Notes | Group Discussion Questions | |
| Week 8 | ||||
| 10/15 | Modular Exponentiation, Fermat's Theorem, 3-pass-protocol | Project 3,Group Discussion Questions | ||
| 10/17 | Euler's Phi Function, Chinese Remainder Theorem | Notes | ||
| Week 9 | ||||
| 10/22 | Exponents, Euler's Theorem and RSA Quiz 3 (practice) | Notes | Project 4 | |
| 10/24 | Primality Tests | Group Discussion Questions | ||
| Week 10 | ||||
| 10/29 | Miller-Rabin Primality Test, Dixon's Factorization Algorithm | Notes | ||
| 10/31 | Dixon's Factorization algorithm, Discrete Logarithms, Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange | Notes | Homework 2 | |
| Week 11 | ||||
| 11/5 | El Gamal, RSA Signatures Quiz 4 (practice) | Group Discussion Questions | ||
| 11/7 | El Gamal Signatures | |||
| Week 12 | ||||
| 11/12 | DSA, Baby Step Giant Step, Midterm Review | Group Discussion Questions | ||
| 11/14 | Midterm 2 | Homework 3 | ||
| Week 13 | ||||
| 11/19 | Hash Functions and the Birthday Paradox | |||
| 11/21 | ||||
| Week 14 | ||||
| 11/26 | ||||
| THANKSGIVING | ||||
| Week 15 | ||||
| 12/3 | Elliptic Curves (mod p) ECHDE, ECDSA | |||
| 12/5 | Elliptic Curve Practice, Final Review | Group Discussion Questions | ||
| 12/12 | Final Exam (3:00 PM) | |||
