CSE logo University 
      
 of Washington Department of Computer Science & Engineering
 CSE 590YA - Winter 2002 - Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography
  CSE Home  About Us    Search    Contact Info 

Lectures and Materials
Assignments
Web-Based Turn-in
Anonymous Feedback
Links and Resources
Course Info Sheet
Course Syllabus
Mailing List Archive
   

Recent Announcements

  • Final project papers are due Tuesday, March 19th, at 6:00PM. Please email your papers to Josh and Brian, with the subject line "FINAL PROJECT".
  • Presentations will take place:
    • Tuesday, March 19th at 6:30PM, in UW, room EE 003 (same room as lectures)
    • Thursday, March 21st at 6:30PM, in Redmond, room 34/2615 Quinalt.

Course Info

Lectures: T 6:30 - 9:20 PM, EE1 Room 003

Josh Benaloh, Instructor
benaloh@cs.washington.edu
Brian LaMacchia, Instructor
bal@cs.washington.edu
Gideon Shavit, TA
gidon@cs.washington.edu

Textbook

The main textbook we will use is Handbook of Applied Cryptography, by Menezes, van Oorschot, and Vanstone (CRC Press, 1997). The book is available for free download in PDF or Postscript format, from Alfred Menezes's website.

Homework Assignments

Assignments will be posted every week before class, and will be due one week later, before class. No late submissions will be accepted, as the problems will be discussed during lecture.

The assignments are posted in Postscript format, and can be viewed with Ghostview (on Unix/Linux machines) or GSView (on Windows). These can be downloaded here.

Turn-in should be on paper (by hand), or electronicaly (by email or web-based). Accepted file formats for electronic turn-in are:

  • MS Office (Office 2000 or earlier please, until further notice), including Visio;
  • HTML;
  • Postscript/PDF (PDF preferred);
  • Plain text: this will often be a bit awkward as mathematical formulas are not easy to write in text.
  • Standard graphic formats - GIF/JPEG: If you have drawings or diagrams that you want to add to your text document, you can scan them and attach them to the message.
If you need to turn in more than 2 files, please archive them to ZIP format, and turn in the archive.

Assignment Hand-back Policy

In order to determine where each assignment should be returned to its rightful owner, the following rules will be used:
I hope this is not too confusing. If you have any questions, please ask.

Assignments

Class Mailing List

The mailing list (cse590ya@cs.washington.edu) is used to communicate important information that is relevant to all the students. Make sure that you are registered to it, by sending email to majordomo@cs.wahsintgon.edu with the single line "subscribe cse590ya@cs" as the message body (not the subject).
After sending the initial request, you will receive two messages from the server. One of them will tell you to send a second email to majordomo, specifying an authorization code.

Messages to the mailing list are stored in a hypermail archive.


CSE logo Department of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
Box 352350
Seattle, WA  98195-2350
(206) 543-1695 voice, (206) 543-2969 FAX
[comments to owner-cse590ya]