ECS 227 - Modern Cryptography - Winter 1999

Topic for Lecture 7 (Thursday, 2/11/99):

Lecture Notes

• Lecture 1 - Introduction and Block Ciphers (1/7)
• Lecture 2 - PRG -> PRF -> PRP Constructions, Part 1 (1/14)
• Lecture 3 - PRG -> PRF -> PRP Constructions, Part 2 (1/21)
• Lecture 4 - Symmetric Encryption, Part 1 (1/28)
• Lecture 5 - Symmetric Encryption, Part 2 (2/4)
• Lecture 6 - Symmetric Encryption, Part 3, and Message Authentication, Part 1 (2/11) (use prior-year notes)

Other Information

• Course Information Sheet

Problem Sets

• Problems 1--4 - due 1/21
• Problems 5--6 - due 1/28
• Problems 7--9 - due 2/11
• Problems 10--12 - due 2/25

Some lecture Notes on cryptography

• [Bellare, Goldwasser] - Lecture Notes on Cryptography
• [Goldreich] - The Foundations of Cryptography

Other materials

• LaTeX Template (ps1.tex)
• Block ciphers: NIST's AES Page and Lars Knudsen's AES Page

In the news...

• Walsh report - Uncensored copy accidentially released (apparently) by the Australian Government Publishing Service.

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