Handouts, CPSC/PMAT 418, Fall 2013

General Handouts

Course Information

• Course information sheet for CPSC 418
• Course information sheet for PMAT 418
• Official syllabus

Exams

• Study guide for the midterm exam
• Sample midterm exam (covered more material than this year's)
• Solutions to sample midterm
• Study guide for the final exam
• Sample final exam
• Solutions to sample final

Handouts Accompanying Lectures

Symmetric Cryptosystems

• Conventional cryptosystem
• Formal schematic of a conventional cryptosystem

Classical Ciphers

• Frequency of letters in English
• Frequency of digraphs in English
• Vigenere tableau
• Vigenere encryption
• Vigenere example
• Symmetry of position

Product Ciphers, DES

• Hayhanen Cipher Description
• DES overview
• DES specification

AES

• Finite fields in Rijndael
• AES overview
• AES algorithms - description
• AES algorithms - figures
• H. Lenstra's "Rijndael for Algebraists"

Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers

• Howard Heys' tutorial on linear and differential cryptanalysis
• Slides based on Heys' tutorial

Modes of Operation

• ECB mode
• CBC, CFB and OFB modes
• CBC and CTR modes

Hash Functions

• Keccak (SHA-3)
• Dr. Dobb's article describing Keccak

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