Introduction to Cryptography

Course Description : Basic concepts of cryptology, historical ciphers, modern symmetric ciphers such as DES, public key cryptography (RSA, elliptic curve cryptosystems), efficient hardware and software implementations of cryptographic primitives, copyright protection (including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act), requirements for implementation of cryptographic modules, data integrity and authentication, digital signature schemes, key exchange and key management, standard protocols for secure mail, electronic payments, security aspects of mobile communications, key escrow schemes, Smart cards, social implications of new technologies.

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Lecture			Download PPT Slides
Lecture 1 :			Basic Cryptography
Lecture 2 :			Math for Crypto
Lecture 3 :			Substitution Ciphers
Lecture 4 :			Block Ciphers
Lecture 5 :			Block Cipher Modes
Lecture 6 :			Implementation
Lecture 7 :			Asymmetric Key
Lecture 8 :			Hash Functions
Lecture 9 :			Random Numbers
Lecture 10:			PKI
Lecture 11:			PKI Implementation
Lecture 12:			Message Authentication
Lecture 13:			Secure Channel
Lecture 14:			Trust
Student		Report Title
Allyson Mader		The Code Book by Simon Singh
Brandon Pollett		Quantum Cryptography
George Thompson		Navajo Code Talkers
Due Date	Assignment/Report
September 7	Assignment 1
September 14	Research Report 1
September 21	Assignment 2
October 5	Assignment 3
October 19	Research Report 2
October 26	Assignment 4
November 9	Assignment 5
November 9	Research Report 3
November 16	Assignment 6