Calendar

This calendar is subject to change. Reading assignments outside the textbook are not included. Class manifests contain details on the reading assignments and topics.

Note: Links to future lectures and handouts are not yet available.

Introduction
Wednesday, 29 August	Lecture 1: Introduction, History of Cryptography, Monoalphabetic Substitution Cipher and Cryptanalysis Due (Friday, 31 August): Problem Set 0 - Survey
Symmetric Ciphers
Monday, 3 Sept	Lecture 2: Shannon Principles; Perfect Ciphers MBC, Ch 1-3. TCB 1.
Wednesday, 5 Sept	Lecture 3: Enigma MBC, 4. TCB 2-4.
Monday, 10 Sept	Lecture 4: Block Ciphers Due: Problem Set 1 MBC, 6.
Wednesday, 12 Sept	Lecture 5: DES Details and Attacks; Modes of Operation; Triple DES
Monday, 17 Sept	Lecture 6: Modern Block Ciphers; AES
Public-Key Cryptography
Wednesday, 19 Sept	Lecture 7: Key Distribution MBC 7
Monday, 24 Sept	Lecture 8: RSA MBC 10
Wednesday, 26 Sept	Lecture 9: Math behind RSA, Complexity Due: Problem Set 2 MBC 9, 11
Monday, 1 Oct	Lecture 10: Certificates and Hashes Due: Preliminary Project Topic Proposal MBC 7, 9
Wednesday, 3 Oct	Lecture 11: Birthday Paradoxes MBC 18
Protocols and Applications
Monday, 8 Oct	Lecture 12: Public-Key Protocols MBC 21
Wednesday, 10 Oct	Lecture 13: Authentication and Cash Due: Problem Set 3
Monday, 15 Oct	Reading Holiday
Wednesday, 17 Oct	No Class
Monday, 22 Oct	Lecture 14: Digital Cash, Randomness
Wednesday, 24 Oct	Midterm - Covers PS1-3, Lectures 1-13, Readings through Lecture 13
Monday, 29 Oct	Guest Lecture: Gary McGraw, Building Secure Software. Due: Project Proposals
Wednesday, 31 Oct	Lecture 15: Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Monday, 5 Nov	Guest Lecture: Laura Brown, Ernst & Young
Wednesday, 7 Nov	Lecture 16: Visual and Quantum Cryptography Due: Problem Set 4
Other Topics
Monday, 12 Nov	Lecture 17: Malcode
Wednesday, 14 Nov	Guest Lecture: Dan Ortiz, UVA Law School
Monday, 19 Nov	Lecture 18: Malcode Countermeasures
Wednesday, 21 Nov	Thanksgiving
Monday, 26 Nov	Lecture 19: Firewalls and Intrusion Detection Due: Problem Set 5
Summary
Wednesday, 28 Nov	Project Presentations
Monday, 3 December	Project Presentations
Wednesday, 5 December	Security Jeapordy: Who wants to be a Quadrillionaire? Due: Project Reports Out: Take-home Final

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

David Evans evans@virginia.edu