ECS 127 – Cryptography

ECS 127 – Cryptography – Spring 2024

Booklet of end-of-term notes to me,
prepared by some kind students.
Photographed at Horsetail Falls, 6/8/2024,
where I took the book to read this morning.
Many thanks for all the touching words.

This page last updated 6/14/2024 at 10pm

Announcements

Done. Grades assigned. I do miss you all.

General Information

Schedule – what we did each class meeting
Office hours – changes often, always check
Student lecture notes - collected from Canvas.Discussions, where additional notes can be found
Canvas – grades and little else
Syllabus – has some unexpected things – read it
Discord server – run by students, could get weird
Gradescope – to return quizzes and midterms

Problem Sets (repeated from past years, optional this year)

Exams

Old Exams
Note: Different terms covered different material in different ways. Don’t be worried when things look unfamiliar; just ignore and move on.

Resources

[Be] UCSD CSE 107 slides by Mihir Bellare (UCSD)
[Bon1] Cryptography I (Coursera) by Dan Boneh (Stanford)
[Bon2] Dan Boneh’s CS 255. (Stanford)
[BR] Introduction to Cryptography (fragments of an unfinished book) by Mihir Bellare and Phillip Rogaway
[BS] A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography by Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup (Courant Institute, DFINITY)
[Ka] Cryptography (Coursera) by Jonathan Katz (U Maryland) and
[KL] Introduction to Modern Cryptography by Jonathan Katz (U Maryland) and Yehuda Lindell (Bar-Ilan, Coinbase)
[Na] Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies by Arvind Narayanan (Princeton)
[Ri] Ron Rivest’s 6.857 (MIT)
[Ro1] Schedule+Videos from the Winter 2019 version of this class
[Ro2] Videos from 2019 edition of this class by Phil Rogaway (UCD)
[Ro3] Old lecture notes – 2019 ‐ extremely rough, not actually intended for students
[Ros] The Joy of Cryptography by Mike Rosulek (Oregon State)
[Th] Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson (1984)

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