Cryptography (Fall 2009)

Last updated: November 12, 2009

General Information

• Course Information: administrative stuff, what the course is about, etc.
• Evolving Lecture topics
• Spring'09 Lecture topics
• Course notes: there is no text for this class, so look for lectures notes here.
• A LaTeX sample as LaTex source and html, and the sample.pdf it produces.
• Here is a set of LaTeX macros, macros.tex, which will help with the typesetting of your homeworks. To use them in your LaTeX file, you'll need to have "\include{macros}" in the header of your file. Look at the file template.tex for an example.
• Office hours on Wednesdays 1100-1200 and by appointment. (I'll add more scheduled hours if needed.)
• We will use this alternative version of chapter 3 of the Bellare-Rogaway notes: chapter 3
• We have a Mailman mailing list now (instead of the BlackBoard list). Please go to this site to sign up.
• Our class will not meet Nov 17 or Nov 19. I suggest you use the class time for review. (Don't get "rusty" while I'm away...)
• We will use this alternative version of the Bellare-Rogaway chapter on hashing (chapter 5): chapter 5
• We will use this alternative version of the Bellare-Rogaway chapter on MACS (chapter 6): chapter 6

• one (Assigned: 6 Oct, Due: 13 Oct)
• two (Assigned: 15 Oct, Due: 21 Oct(?))
• three (Assigned: 30 Oct, Due: 6 Nov)
• four, and the LaTeX source (Assigned: 10 Nov, Due: 20 Nov)

• International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR): main page, online paper repository