This schedule is subject to change. The Viewgraphs of the lectures and Homework Assignments are available on My Mason for students registered for this class.
Updated 4/23/19| Lecture | Date | Topic | Due |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 23rd | Introduction, Number theory: groups and fields | |
| 2 | January 30th | Galois fields theory | HW 1 |
| 3 | February 6th | Implementation of Galois field arithmetic and Cryptosystems | HW 2, Draft Project Specifications |
| 4 | February 13th | Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) | HW 3 |
| February 20th | Snow Day | ||
| 5 | February 27th | Elliptic Curve Cryptography | HW 4, Project Specifications |
| 6 | March 6th | Side Channel Analysis: Timing and Power | HW 5 |
| 7 | March 13th | Midterm Exam | |
| 8 | March 20th | Long number arithmetic: Montgomery and Karatsuba-Offman | Progress Reports, SCA-Lab |
| 9 | March 27th | Exponentiation algorithms | HW 6 |
| 10 | April 3rd | Stream ciphers and Linear Feedback Shift Registers | HW 7 |
| 11 | April 11th | Attacks against Discrete Logarithms: Shank's algorithm, Pollard's-rho method, Index calculus method | HW 8 |
| 12 | April 17th | Side Channel Analysis: Fault and Cache | HW 9 |
| 13 | April 24th | Secret sharing, threshold schemes, zero knowledge proofs | Draft Project Paper |
| 14 | May 1st | Project Presentations | HW 10, Project Paper Reviews |
| May 7th | Reading Day | Final Project Paper | |
| May 8th | Final Exam |
The schedule is subject to change!