ECS 227 - Modern Cryptography

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Topic for Lecture 16 (Thursday, 11/21/96):

Lecture Notes

• Lecture 1 - Overview (9/26)
• Lecture 2 - The Data Encryption Standard (10/1)
• Lecture 3 - Collision-Intractable Hashing (10/3)
• Lectures 4-5 - The Notion of Symmetric Encryption (10/8, 10/10)
• Lectures 6-7 - Achieving Symmetric Encryption (10/15, 10/17)
• Lecture 8 - Bit Commitment (10/22) - scribe: Nick Puketza
• Lecture 9 - Odds and ends (10/24)
• Lecture 10 - Interactive Proofs (10/29)
• Lecture 11 - Perfect zero knowlege (10/29)
• Lecture 12 - Computational zero knowledge (11/6)
• Lectures 13-14 - Message authentication (11/16)
• Lectures 15 - Entity authentication (11/19) (paper)

Problem Sets

• Problem Set 1 - due 10/17
• Problem Set 2 - due 11/5
• Problem Set 3 - due 11/26

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