Laboratory exercises will involve getting familiar with selected implementations of cryptographic algorithms and protocols. Based on this knowledge and your own experiments, you will be asked to solve a set of simple problems, and prepare a short report including answers to the questions included in the instruction. All exercises can be done at home, at your own speed, or in the ECE computing labs.
PGP Lab 1
Part 1 of PGP Lab 1 is due at the beginning of class on Wednesday, September 26th. It is important that everybody brings four copies of their public key card along to class. Part 2, including the report for both parts, is due at the beginning of class on Wednesday, October 3rd.
- PGP Laboratory 1: Instructions
- PGP Laboratory 1: Introduction
- PGP Laboratory 1: Actions explicitly forbidden
PGP Lab 2
The report for PGP Lab 2 is due at the beginning of class on Wednesday, October 10th.
CrypTool Lab
The report for CrypTool Lab is due at the beginning of class on Wednesday, October 31st.
Kryptos Lab
The report for the Kryptos Lab is due at the beginning of class on Wednesday, November 14th. Below are links to the Kryptos page as well as to some very useful utilities.
- Kryptos Lab: Instructions (PDF), (DOC)
- New Homepage of Kryptos
- Hex Utility Viewer
- Bit modifier Tool
S/MIME Lab
There will not be an S/MIME Lab this semester.