Cryptography (AARMS Summer School 2009)

Lectures

Room C-104, Carleton Hall
Instructor: Mike Jacobson
Office: Tilley Hall, Room 414
Email: jacobs@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Office hours: TBA

Textbook

There is no required textbook, but you might find the Handbook of Applied Cryptography by Menezes, van Oorschot, and Vanstone useful.

Grading

Two components are included in the determination of the course grade.

	Component	Weight
	Assignments (total of 3, equally weighted)	60%
	Research Project	40%

A percentage grade (ratio of number of marks awarded to the number of marks available) will be computed for each component. An overall percentage grade for the course will then be computed, using the percentage grades awarded for each component, as a weighted average using the weightings listed above. Finally, the overall percentage grade will be converted to a letter grade using the following conversion. (This is the only letter grade that will be used, in this course.)

From:	To:	= Letter		From:	To:	= Letter
95%	100%		A+	65%	69%		C+
90%	94%		A	60%	64%		C
85%	89%		A−	55%	59%		C−
80%	84%		B+	50%	54%		D+
75%	79%		B	45%	49%		D
70%	74%		B−	0%	44%		F

Group Work

Group submissions are not permitted for the assignments. Some collaboration and brain-storming on problems is defintiely encouraged, but be sure to write out all the answers yourself in your own words. If you do collaborate with others, declare on your submitted assignment the questions for which you collaborated and the names of all people with whom you collaborated. You are also encouraged to consult references outside the lecture notes (text books, Wikipedia, research papers) but again, if you do so, declare these explicitly on your assignment submission.

Group work is allowed on all components of the research project. Groups of up to four students are allowed. See the project description on the "handouts" page for more information.

Exam

There will be no midterm nor final exam.

News

August 11 - Solutions to Assignment 3 have been posted.
July 31 - Solutions to Assignment 2 have been posted.
July 30 - Research project reports are due on August 7, 2009, immediately after the last presentation.
July 30 - A schedule for the research project presentations has been posted on the "schedule" page.
July 27 - Assignment 3 has been posted and is due on Aug 4.
July 27 - Solutions to Assignment 1 have been posted.
July 22 - The lecture on Friday, July 24 will be at 14:45 instead of 10:15 (we are switching with the Quantum lecture on this day)
July 20 - Assignment 2 has been posted and is due on July 28.
July 16 - Supplementary notes on DES, modular arithmetic and finite fields, and AES are available on the "handouts" page.
July 16 - Text files containing the bonus problem ciphertexts are available on the "handouts" page.
July 15 - Assignment 1 has been posted and is due on July 21 (in class).
July 13 - A research project description and two sample project proposals have been posted on the "handouts" page.
July 13 - Numerous cryptography and security references can be found on the "links" page.
July 13 - Various handouts to provide supplemental material for the lectures and assistance for the assignment have been posted on the "handouts" page.

Assignments:	1 - 2 - 3
Solutions:	1 - 2 - 3