CPSC 669, Cryptography (Winter 2003)

Date	Time	Presenter	Title
7/04	10:00-10:40	Andreas Hirt	Survey and Analysis of Anonymous Communication Schemes
9/04	10:00-10:40	Ricardo Hoar	A Survey of Attacks on Rijndael
11/04	10:00-10:40	Malik Agyemang	Crytographically Secure Generation of Random Numbers
14/04	9:00-9:40	Grigori Melnik	Secure Storage and Retrival Information Protocols
14/04	10:00-10:40	Joanne Penner	Aspects of Secure Key Exchange
16/04	10:00-10:40	Roger Curry	How to Solve the Discrete Logarithm Problem
16/04	11:00-11:40	Sander Ketelaar	A Survey on the IDEA Block Cipher
21/04	11:00-11:40	Ryan Shirley	Linear and Differential Cryptanalysis with Applications to DES and AES

Week	Topic
13/01	Introduction; substitution ciphers, redundancy and entropy, perfect security, one-time pad, unicity distance.
20/01	Block ciphers, product ciphers, DES, 3-DES.
27/01	Groups and finite fields, AES.
03/02	Number theory, extended Euclidean algorithm, power algorithm, one-way functions, Diffie-Hellman key exchange.
10/02	One-way trapdoor functions, public-key cryptography, public-key authentication, RSA.
17/02	Rabin-Williams, more number theory, Miller-Rabin..
24/02	Digital signatures, DSA, El Gamal, generic El Gamal, elliptic curves, EC-DSA.
03/03	Probabilistic PKC, semantic security, quadratic residuosity problem, Goldwasser-Micali, Blum-Goldwasser.
10/03	Key management, public-key infrastructure, certification authorities, cryptographic hash functions.
17/03	web security (SSL), wireless security (WEP), email security (PGP).
24/03	Student presentations.
31/03	Student presentations.
07/04	Student presentations.