4003-482-01/4005-705-01 Cryptography
Course Schedule and Topics

Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:00pm-3:50pm, Room 70-2690

Final Exam: Monday, 13-May-2013, 12:30pm-2:30pm, Room 70-2690

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
Mar. 3	Mar. 4	Mar. 5 Course Introduction Ch. 1. Introduction to Cryptography Team Project assigned	Mar. 6	Mar. 7 Ch. 2. Stream Ciphers Practical: Coding Crypto	Mar. 8	Mar. 9
Mar. 10 Drop/ add*	Mar. 11	Mar. 12 Ch. 2. Stream Ciphers Practical: Stream Cipher Implementation	Mar. 13	Mar. 14 Ch. 3. Data Encryption Standard Practical: Block Cipher Implementation Team Proposal due	Mar. 15	Mar. 16
Mar. 17	Mar. 18	Mar. 19 Ch. 4. Advanced Encryption Standard Practical: Block Cipher Implementation Take-Home Quiz 1 assigned	Mar. 20	Mar. 21 Ch. 5. More About Block Ciphers Practical: Block Cipher Mode Implementation	Mar. 22	Mar. 23
Mar. 24	Mar. 25	Mar. 26 Structural Attacks on Block Ciphers Take-Home Quiz 1 due	Mar. 27	Mar. 28 Ch. 11. Hash Functions	Mar. 29	Mar. 30
Mar. 31	Apr. 1	Apr. 2 Ch. 11. Hash Functions Practical: Hash Function Implementation Take-Home Quiz 2 assigned	Apr. 3	Apr. 4 Ch. 12. Message Authentication Codes	Apr. 5	Apr. 6
Apr. 7	Apr. 8	Apr. 9 Team Presentation 1 -- Teams U1-U7 Take-Home Quiz 2 due	Apr. 10	Apr. 11 Team Presentation 1 -- Teams G1-G5	Apr. 12 Final exam conflicts**	Apr. 13
Apr. 14	Apr. 15	Apr. 16 Ch. 6. Introduction to Public-Key Cryptography Take-Home Quiz 3 assigned	Apr. 17	Apr. 18 Ch. 7. The RSA Cryptosystem	Apr. 19	Apr. 20
Apr. 21	Apr. 22	Apr. 23 Ch. 8. Public-Key Crypto Based on the DLP Take-Home Quiz 3 due	Apr. 24	Apr. 25 Ch. 9. Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems	Apr. 26 Withdraw ***	Apr. 27
Apr. 28	Apr. 29	Apr. 30 Ch. 10. Digital Signatures Take-Home Quiz 4 assigned	May 1	May 2 Ch. 13. Key Establishment Research Topics Team Deliverables due (all teams)	May 3	May 4
May 5	May 6	May 7 Team Presentation 2 -- Teams U1-U7 Take-Home Quiz 4 due	May 8	May 9 Team Presentation 2 -- Teams G1-G5	May 10	May 11
May 12	May 13 Final Exam 12:30pm	May 14 Finals	May 15 Finals	May 16 Finals	May 17 Finals	May 18

*Last date to drop/add courses: Sunday 10-Mar-2013
**Last date to request final exam rescheduling due to scheduling conflicts: Friday 12-Apr-2013
***Last date to withdraw with a grade of W: Friday 26-Apr-2013

Team Presentations

• Tuesday, 09-Apr-2013
  • U1. Team DES
  • U2. Team DDK
  • U3. Team Men In Black
  • U4. Team ASK
  • U5. Team The A-Team
  • U6. Team Cypherpunks
  • U7. Team French Toast Mafia

• Thursday, 11-Apr-2013
  • G1. Team RZC
  • G2. Team 24
  • G3. Team New HIGHT
  • G4. Team ACD
  • G5. Team Cryptanal-ICE

• Tuesday, 07-May-2013
  • U1. Team DES
  • U2. Team DDK
  • U3. Team Men In Black
  • U4. Team ASK
  • U5. Team The A-Team
  • U6. Team Cypherpunks
  • U7. Team French Toast Mafia

• Thursday, 09-May-2013
  • G1. Team RZC
  • G2. Team 24
  • G3. Team New HIGHT
  • G4. Team ACD
  • G5. Team Cryptanal-ICE

Cryptography • 4003-482-01/4005-705-01 • Spring Quarter 2013

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