Meetings. Our course meets TR 10-12 in CSB 204. There will be about 22 lectures and 2 days of class presentations. More course information is available.

Problem sets.

• PS #1. Assigned July 2, due July 11
• PS #2. Assigned July 10, due July 30
• PS #3. Assigned Aug 1, due Aug 13
• PS #4. Assigned Aug 13, due Aug 27

Lectures to date. Here is a table of topics for the lectures I have given to date.

Supplemental material. Because of your slow internet connection, I have made a CD of supplemental material. You probably will wish to use that instead of the following links.

• Class notes. Available as dvi . ps . pdf
• Mihir Bellare's survey: Practice-Oriented Provable Security
• Oded Goldreich's essay: The Foundations of Cryptography
• Menezes, van Oorschot and Vanstone's book, Handbook of Applied Cryptography
• Cryptography FAQ from RSA
• DES (FIPS 46-3) and an article on DES by Susan Landau
• The draft AES FIPS from the AES homepage, and an article on AES by Susan Landau.
• Some modes of operation
• [Bellare, Desai, Jokippi, Rogaway] paper about symmetric encryption.
• SHA1 Definition
• HMAC Spec and the HMAC papers
• [Bellare, Namprempre] paper about authenticated encryption, and my authenticated encryption scheme