The Viewgraphs of the lectures and Homework Assignments are available on My Mason for students registered for this class.
Updated 3/27/17| Lecture | Date | Topic | Due |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 24th | Introduction, Number theory: groups and fields | |
| 2 | January 31st | Galois fields theory | HW 1 |
| 3 | February 7th | Implementation of Galois field arithmetic and Cryptosystems | HW 2, Draft Project Specifications |
| 4 | February 14th | Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) | HW 3 |
| 5 | February 21st | Elliptic Curve Cryptography | HW 4, Project Specifications |
| 6 | February 28th | Side Channel Analysis: Timing and Power | HW 5 |
| 7 | March 7th | Midterm Exam | |
| March 14th | Spring Break | ||
| 8 | March 21st | Long number arithmetic: Montgomery and Karatsuba-Offman | Progress Reports |
| 9 | March 28th | Exponentiation algorithms | HW 6 |
| 10 | April 4th | Stream ciphers and Linear Feedback Shift Registers | HW 7 |
| 11 | April 11th | Identity Based Encryption | HW 8 |
| 12 | April 18th | Attacks against Discrete Logarithms: Shank's algorithm, Pollard's-rho method, Index calculus method | HW 9 |
| 13 | April 25th | Secret sharing, threshold schemes, zero knowledge proofs | Draft Project Paper |
| 14 | May 2nd | Side Channel Analysis: Fault and Cache | HW 10, Project Paper Reviews |
| May 5th | Project Presentations (4:30pm-9:00pm) | ||
| May 9th | Reading Day | Final Project Paper | |
| May 16th | Final Exam |
The schedule is subject to change!