CIS 6930 Special Topics: Advanced Cryptography

Last modified 2011.04.14

Syllabus

Course Assignments

• Presentations and questions available in presentations - submit answers by Friday.
• Exam 2 Tuesday 19 April during class time. Material primarily from class presentations (student and mine) and Stallings Chapters 8-10, 13-14.
• You may access student presentations to review these for Exam 2 on Tuesday.
• Morgan and Paul's presentation may be more easily accessed directly at SHA-3 Candidates
• Please provide either paper or sufficiently detailed presentation on your subject for other students to study for exam 2.

  These I will post on this site.

• Please attend Tony Chuchaisri's dissertation proposal in 404 at 11:00 today (Thurs 4/7)

  Topic is Improving ECC-based Fast Authentication in WSNs

• confirm schedule for presentations - if you are not on it, or the time is bad, then you must contact me immediately.
• read Rizzo's paper on padding attacks, including the Vaudenay attack.
• read DEC SRC TR-039: A Logic of Authentication (PDF)
• email me with 2-3 other topics (later chapters) you would especially like to cover
• email me with 2-3 dates for your presentation (include length)
• reread Ch. 10 and 12 for Thursday
• Double session Thursday (start 8:30)
• Exam 1 will be reveiwed on Tuesday
• read Ch. 10 for Tuesday
• read Ch. 9 for Thursday
• read Ch. 8 for Tuesday
• *** Term Project - description and resource list due Tues. 3/1
• Thurs. - Exam 1: Ch 1-7, 11-12
• Tuesday - Quiz 2 on Ch 4-6
• read Chs. 7 and 11 for Tuesday
• Homeworks
• Exams
• Projects

Slides

Notes

• Introduction to Crypto - or - a smaller version
• Modern Crypto - or - a smaller version
• Hashes - or - a smaller version
• Public Key Crypto - or - a smaller version
• Network Crypto a smaller version
• Network Security a smaller version
• basic protocols
• advanced protocols
• Public Key Infrastructure
• Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
• Key Escrow
• More... TBA

Other Materials

• Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman win 2002 Turing Award
• DEC SRC TR-039: A Logic of Authentication

  DEC SRC TR-039: A Logic of Authentication (pdf)

• DEC SRC TR-039-appendix: A Logic of Authentication Appendix
• DEC SRC TR-067: Authentication and Delegation with Smart-cards
• DEC SRC TR-083: Authentication in Distributed Systems: Theory & Practice
• DEC SRC TR-125: Prudent Engineering Practice for Cryptographic Protocols
• OpenSSL home page Download site for OpenSSL, including crypto library
• Tutorial and Download for PGP, with local mirror
• GNU Privacy Manual with plenty on the Web of Trust
• Prof. Doug Jones' page on voting
• Prof. Avi Rubin's page on electronic voting.
• article on voting in India