| Week 1 |
| Tues, January 17 |
Thurs, January 19 |
Topics:
- Introductions
- Class/syllabus review
- High-level security overview
Handouts:
Reading: Textbook, Chapter 1
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Topics: [Slides]
- Security mindset and terminlogy
- Secure Design Principles
- System / Security Modeling
- Attack Trees
Handout:
Homework 1
Reading: Textbook, Sections 2.1-2.3
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| Week 2 |
| Tues, January 24 |
Thurs, January 26 |
Topics: [Slides]
- HW Solution Discussion
- Basic Math for Crypto:
- Divisibility
- Greatest Common Divisor
- Modular Arithmetic
Handout:
Project Phase 1 (due Feb 7)
Reading:
Sections 3.1, 3.2 (skip Hill cipher), 3.5
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Topics: [Slides]
- Quiz (based on HW 1)
- Number sizes and estimates
- Encryption basics / models
- Types of attacks
Handouts:
Reading: Sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.4
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| Week 3 |
| Tues, January 31 |
Thurs, February 2 |
Topics: [slides from previous meeting]
- HW Solution Discussion
- Classical encryption techniques
- One-time pad
- Working with binary data
- Steganography
Reading:
Introduction from "JCA Reference Guide"
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Topics: [Slides]
- Quiz (based on HW 2)
- Feistel Networks
- DES
- Block cipher security
- Strength of DES
Handouts:
Reading: AES Handout
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| Week 4 |
| Tues, February 7 |
Thurs, February 9 |
Due: Project phase 1
Topics:
- HW 3 Solution Discussion
- Brief project design discussion
- Java Cryptography Architecture
Handout: Project phase 2 (due Feb 28)
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Topics: [Slides]
- Quiz (based on HW 3)
- Project design discussion
Handout:
Homework 4
Reading: Sections 7.1-7.6
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| Week 5 |
| Tues, February 14 |
Thurs, February 16 |
Topics:
- Quiz 3 solution discussion
- HW Solution Discussion
- Chat Hub demo
- AES
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Topics: [Slides]
- Quiz (based on HW 4)
- Multiple encryption and 3DES
- Block cipher modes – idea
- Modes: ECB, CBC, CFB, and CTR
Handouts:
Reading: Section 7.7
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| Week 6 |
| Tues, February 21 |
Thurs, February 23 |
Topics:
- HW Solution Discussion
- Complete basic modes discussion
- Practical implementation issues
Reading: Sections 8.1-8.3
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Topics: [Slides]
- Quiz (based on HW 5)
- Storage encryption: XTS-AES mode
Handouts:
Reading: Security models handout
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| Week 7 |
| Tues, February 28 |
Thurs, March 2 |
Due: Project phase 2
Topics: [Slides]
- HW Solution Discussion
- (Pseudo)random numbers – issues
- Entropy
- Pseudorandom generators
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Topics:
- Quiz (based on HW 6)
- Security models – concepts
- Security games
- IND-CPA security
Handout:
Homework 7
Reading: Sections 9.1, 2.4-2.6
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| Week 8 |
| Tues, March 7 |
Thurs, March 9 |
Topics:
- HW Solution Discussion
- Practice with security proofs
Handout: Project phase 3 (due March 28)
Reading: Section 9.2, 2.8, 10.1-10.2
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Topics: [Slides]
- Quiz (based on HW 7)
- IND-CCA security
- Public-Key Crypto – ideas
- Using RSA and Diffie-Hellman
- Comparable key sizes across ciphers
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| Week 9 |
| Tues, March 14 |
Thurs, March 16 |
No class - Spring Break!
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No class - Spring Break!
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| Week 10 |
| Tues, March 21 |
Thurs, March 23 |
Topics: [Slides]
- Math for RSA
- Fermat's Little Theorem
- Primality testing (Miller-Rabin)
- Euler's Totient Function
- Euler's Theorem
- RSA - the algorithm
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Topics:
- Discrete logarithms
- Diffie-Hellman Key Establishment
- Elliptic curve ideas
- Security and key sizes
Handout:
Homework 8
Reading: Chapter 11 (skip SHA-512 logic and SHA3 iteration function)
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| Week 11 |
| Tues, March 28 |
Thurs, March 30 |
Due: Project phase 3
Topics: [Slides]
- HW Solution Discussion
- Hash functions – ideas
- Hash function requirements
- Status of current hash function security
- Hash function applications
Handout: Grad Student Project Info
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Topics:
- Quiz (based on HW 8)
- Discussion of project phase 4
Handouts:
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| Week 12 |
| Tues, April 4 |
Thurs, April 6 |
Topics:
- HW Solution Discussion
- More hash function applications
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Topics:
- Quiz (based on HW 9)
- Widely-used hash functions
Handout:
Homework 10
Reading: Sections 12.1-12.5
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| Week 13 |
| Tues, April 11 |
Thurs, April 13 |
Topics: [Slides]
- HW Solution Discussion
- Message Authentication Codes (MACs)
- MAC requirements / security model
- Digital signature and certificate ideas
- Initial attempts at a MAC
Reading: Sections 12.7-12.9, 13.1, 13.2, 13.4
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Topics: [Slides]
- Quiz (based on HW 10)
- HMAC
- Authenticated encryption
Handout:
Homework 11
Reading: Sections 13.6
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| Week 14 |
| Tues, April 18 |
Thurs, April 20 |
Topics: [Slides]
- HW Solution Discussion
- More authenticated encryption
- Key wrapping
- PRNGs from hash functions and MACs
- Digital Signatures – ideas
Reading: Sections 14.2-14.5
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Topics: [Slides]
- Quiz (based on HW 11)
- El Gamal signatures
- DSA (and EC-DSA idea)
- RSA-PSS signatures
- Key management
- Certificates
- Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Handout:
Homework 12
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| Week 15 |
| Tues, April 25 |
Thurs, April 27 |
Due: Project phase 4
Topics:
- HW Solution Discussion
- Wrap up a few certificate topics
- Student-choice topic: Bitcoin
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Topics:
- Quiz (based on HW 12)
- Class Review
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| Final Exam: Tuesday, May 9, 12:00-3:00 |
