Manifest: Wednesday 31 October 2001

Assignments Due

Monday, 5 November: Problem Set 4 (Topic Email)

Monday, 12 November: Problem Set 4 (Final)

Wednesday, 28 November - Monday, 3 December: Project Presentations

Wednesday, 5 December: Project Final Report

Readings

• Quisquater, J. J., Guillou, L. C., Annick, M. and Berson, T. A. How to Explain Zero Knowledge Proofs to Your Children (or hapless Trick-or-Treaters), CRYPTO '89.
• Joe Kilian. Founding Cryptography on Oblivious Transfer, 1988. This paper gets pretty deep into theory. Read Sections 1 and 2, and try to understand as much of the rest as you can. (But take a theory course someday so you can understand the rest!)

Links

• Great Theoretical Ideas in Computer Science (CMU course)

University of Virginia Department of Computer Science CS 588: Cryptology - Principles and Applications

David Evans evans@virginia.edu