| Week | Topic | Course Work |
| 14/01 | Introduction and motivation (Ch 1,11,12 Stallings);
OSI security architechture, weaknesses of "textbook" public-key
cryptography; mechanisms for data integrity | NA |
| 21/01 | Hash functions and MACs (Ch 11,12 Stallings);
security of hash functions and MACs, examples (SHA-1, CMAC, HMAC) | 21/01 Assignment 1 set |
| 28/01 | Pseudorandom number generation (Ch 7 Stallings);
statistical tests (FIPS 140-1), cryptographically secure random bit generators
(ANSI X9.17, Blum-Blum-Shub)
| NA |
| 04/02 | Provable security; randomized encryption (El Gamal), semantic security (Goldwasser-Micali, Blum-Goldwasser); provable security against active attacks (RSA-OAEP) |
NA |
| 11/02 | Key management (Ch 7,14 Stallings); key distribution
centers; public-key infrastructures; ID-based cryptography (Shamir's ID-based
signature scheme) |
15/02 Assignment 1 due; Assignment 2 set |
| 18/02 | Reading week - no classes | NA |
| 25/02 | Authentication (Ch 13 Stallings); basic mechanisms
(nonces, time-stamps, challenge-response); authenticated key agreement
(variations of Needham-Schroeder, station-to-station) |
NA |
| 03/03 | Access control (Ch 14 Stallings);
password mechanisms and one-time passwords (S/KEY); SSH; Kerberos | NA |
| 10/03 | Secure email (Ch. 15 Stallings); Pretty Good Privacy (PGP); S-MIME | NA |
| 17/03 | IPSec and virtual private networks (Ch 16 Stallings);
IPSec overview; IPSec architecture; Internet Key Exchange (IKE) | 17/03 Assignment 2 due; Assignment 3 set |
| 24/03 | E-commerce and Web security (Ch. 17 Stallings);
Secure Socket Layer (SSL/TLS); Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) | NA |
| 31/03 | More digital signature schemes; El Gamal and the
Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA); provably secure signatures (one-time
signatures, full-domain hash); undeniable signatures (Chaum-van Antwerpen)
| NA |
| 07/04 | Zero-knowledge; bit commitment, authentication (Fiege-Fiat-Shamir, Guillou-Quisquater, Schnorr) | NA |
| 14/04 | Secret Sharing; Shamir's threshold scheme;
generalized secret sharing; Brickell's vector space construction |
14/04 Assignment 3 due; 18/04 research project due (4:30, my office) |