CSE 599R Special Topics - Cryptanalysis (Winter 2009)

John Manferdelli

Time (Winter): Monday, 3-5:50
Location: CSE 203

Instructor and Office Hours

Instructor: John L. Manferdelli.
Email: jmanfer at microsoft.com.
Email: jlm at cs.washington.edu.
Office: CSE 444.
Office Hours: M 2:00-3:00 (and by appointment).

Here is some information about me.

Class Description

The Winter Quarter will be largely "seminar style" with student presentations exploring some of the topics covered in the autumn session in greater depth; I will also present a few additional topics like Error Correcting Codes, Boolean Functions and Analysis of FEAL and WEP. The course page for last quarter is here.

Textbook

Required: Introduction to Cryptography and Coding Theory by Wade Trappe and Lawrence C. Washington. Second Edition. Pearson/Prentice Hall.
Additional references are here.

Mail

I keep a course mailing list for announcements. Please send me your email address if you have not yet given it to me.
If you need to send me an email, please prepend the subject line with: "[CSEP599R]". fonts.

Grading

Here is how I plan to grade this class.

The bulk of the grade will be derived from the seminar presentation done by each student.

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Schedule (Subject to Change)

Date	Topics, readings, and assignments
Week 1. January 5, 2009	Topic: Error Correcting Codes and McEliece's Public Key System. Lecture Notes: Lecture Notes and Lecture Notes. Homework Assignment: Homework.
Week 2. January 12, 2009.	Topic: Boolean Functions. Lecture Notes: Lecture Notes and Lecture Notes.
Week 3. January 19, 2009.	Topic: No class.
Week 4. January 26, 2009.	Topic: MOV attack, Dustin Moody. Guest lecture: Jim Simon, Microsoft Institute for Advanced Government Strategies.
Week 5. February 2, 2009.	Topic: Linear and differential cryptanalysis of DES. Slava Chernyak, Sourav Sen Gupta.
Week 6. February 9, 2009.	Topic: Algebraic attacks. Paul Carr. MOV---II, Dan Shumow.
Week 7. February 16, 2009.	No class.
Week 8. February 23, 2009.	No class. NIST Hash workshop.
Week 9. March 2, 2009.	Topic: Attacks on MD4 and MD5, Owen Anderson. Factoring attacks, Wenhan Wang.
Week 10. March 9, 2009.	Topic: Attacks on Stream ciphers. Karl Koscher (CSE).

jlm@cs.washington.edu