| Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Notes |
| Mon, Jan 11 |
Course Overview
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Lecture 1
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Symmetric Key Cryptography
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| Wed, Jan 13 |
Stream Ciphers
|
KL 29-40, 61-77
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Stream Cipher Slides
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Fri, Jan 15
|
Recitation: Discrete Probability Theory |
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| Mon, Jan 18 |
No Class: Martin Luther King Day |
| Wed, Jan 20 |
Stream Ciphers II
|
KL 159-187 |
Stream Cipher
Block Chipher
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| Fri, Jan 22 |
Recitation IND-CPA Games - Homework 1 Assigned
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| Mon, Jan 25 |
Block Ciphers
|
KL 82-85, 86-90, 94-102, |
Slides |
| Wed, Jan 27 |
Using Block Ciphers
|
KL 111-126 |
Slides
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| Fri, Jan 29 |
Recitation - Salsa20 and Cipher Design
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| Mon, Feb 1 |
Message Integrity |
KL 127-143 |
Slides
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| Wed, Feb 3 |
Collision Resistance |
KL 148-154 |
Slides
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| Fri, Feb 5 |
Recitation - Reduction Proofs - Homework 1 Due, Homework 2 Assigned
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| Mon, Feb 8 |
Authenticated Encryption |
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Slides
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Public Key Cryptography
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| Wed, Feb 10 |
Basic Key Exchange
|
KL: 359-363 |
Slides
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| Fri, Feb 12 |
Recitation: Algebraic Structures and Number Theory
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| Mon, Feb 15 |
Introduction to Number Theory |
KL Ch. 7 |
Slides
|
| Wed, Feb 17 |
Introduction to Number Theory
|
KL 315-339, 364-368 |
Slides
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| Fri, Feb 19 |
Recitation: Number Theory - Homework 2 Due, Homework 3 Assigned
|
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| Mon, Feb 22 |
Public Key Encryption from Trapdoor Permutations |
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Slides
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| Wed, Feb 24 |
Public Key Encryption: Diffie-Hellman |
KL 421-432 |
Slides
|
| Fri, Feb 26 |
Recitation - Homework 2 Review
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|
| Mon, Feb 29 |
Digital Signatures I |
KL 432-453 |
Slides
|
| Wed, Mar 2 |
Digital Signatures II - Homework 3 Due |
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Slides
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| Fri, Mar 4 |
No Recitation: Mid Semester Break
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| Mon, Mar 7 |
No Class: Mid Semester Break
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| Wed, Mar 9 |
No Class: Mid Semester Break
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| Fri, Mar 11 |
No Recitation: Mid Semester Break
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Protocols and Advanced Topics
|
| Mon, Mar 14 |
Authentication and key Exchange: Kerberos + IPSec |
Just Fast Keying
Optional: Kerberos V5 Network Authentication Service
|
Kerberos Slides
JFKi Slides
|
| Wed, Mar 16 |
Authentication on the Web: SSL/TLS |
TLS v1.2 RFC |
SSL Slides (Part 1)
|
| Fri, Mar 18 |
Recitation: Homework 3 Review
|
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| Mon, Mar 21 |
Authentication on the Web: Password Security |
J. Blocki, S. Komanduri, L. Cranor, A. Datta, Spaced Repetition and Mnemonics Enable Recall of Multiple Strong Passwords, in Proceedings of Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, February 2015.
J. Blocki, M. Blum, A. Datta, Naturally Rehearsing Passwords, in Proceedings of Asiacrypt, December 2013
The science of guessing: analyzing an anonymized corpus of 70 million passwords
|
SSL Slides (Part 2)
Human Authentication Slides
|
| Wed, Mar 23 |
Authentication on the Web: Accountable Public Key Infrastructure |
Certificate Transparency
|
Slides
|
| Fri, Mar 25 |
Recitation - Homework 4 Due, Mini-Project Assigned
|
No slides
|
| Mon, Mar 28 |
Accountability: Traitor Tracing |
Revocation and Tracing Schemes for Stateless Recievers
|
Slides
|
| Wed, Mar 30 |
Accountability: Electronic Voting I |
Verifiability, Privacy and Coercion-Resistance
|
Slides
|
| Fri, Apr 1 |
Recitation - Homework 4 Review
|
|
| Mon, Apr 4 |
Accountability: Electronic Voting II |
Scantegrity II
Proving Coercion-Resistance of Scantegrity II
|
Slides
|
| Wed, Apr 6 |
Accountability in Anonymous Communication / DC-Nets
|
Untraceable Electronic Mail
The Dining Cryptographers Problem
Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router
|
Slides
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| Fri, Apr 8 |
Recitation - Mini-project Due, Homework 5 Assigned
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Mon, Apr 11
| Anti-Surveillance: Security of Symmetric and Big Key Encryption against Mass Surveillance |
Security of Symmetric Encryption against Mass Surveillance
The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work [pg 31-]
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Slides
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| Wed, Apr 13 |
Anti-Surveillance: Anonymous Credentials |
Pseudonym Systems [pg 7-24]
|
Slides
|
| Fri, Apr 15 |
No Recitation: Carnival |
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| Mon, Apr 18 |
Anti-Surveillance: Anonymous Communication I |
Private Information Retrieval
Riffle: An Efficient Communication System With Strong Anonymity
|
Slides
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| Wed, Apr 20 |
Anti-Surveillance: Anonymous Communication II |
Riposte: An Anonymous Messaging System Handling Millions of Users
|
Slides
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| Fri, Apr 22 |
No Reciation - Office Hours Instead |
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| Mon, Apr 25 |
Anti-Surveillance: Cryptocurrencies |
How the Bitcoin protocol actually works
Research Persectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
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Slides
|
| Wed, Apr 27 |
Course Wrap-up |
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Slides
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| Fri, Apr 29 |
Recitation (Moved to HHD210) - Homework 5 Due |
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