CSE P 590TU: Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography  Winter 2006

Welcome to Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography, Winter 2006
University of Washington CSE P 590TU

Instructors:

• Josh Benaloh
• Brian LaMacchia
• John Manferdelli

TAs:

• Kate Deibel
• YongChul Kwon

Basic Facts:

• Time: Tuesdays, 6:30-9:20 PM, Beginning January 3rd
• Places: MSR 113/1159, and UW Allen Center CSE305
• Lecture Slides and Video Archives: Will be posted here.

Textbooks:

There is no assigned textbook for this course but you might find one or more of the following texts useful:

• 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.
• Applied Cryptography (2nd. edition), by Schneier
• Practical Cryptography, by Ferguson and Schneier
• Cryptography: Theory and Practice (3rd. edition), by Stinson

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 PDF and Postscript formats.  Adobe Acrobat Reader is a free PDF reader available for a wide variety of platforms, you can find it here.  Postscript can be viewed with Ghostview (on Unix/Linux machines), GSView (on Windows) or MacGSView (for Macs); all of which may be found here.

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

• Microsoft Office, 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

Assignments

• Assignment 1 (PDF, PS), due January 10th
  • Solutions (PPT)
  • Mean: 42.62, Median: 45.5, Std. Dev.: 9.362
• Assignment 2 (Text File), due January 17th
  • Solutions (PPT)
  • Mean: 29.24, Median: 31.25, Std. Dev.: 9.159
  • Including extra credit: Mean: 29.78, Median: 31.5, Std. Dev.: 9.544
• Assignment 3 (PDF, PS), due January 24th
  • Mean: 44.63, Median: 49, Std. Dev.: 9.588
• Assignment 4 (DOC, PDF), due January 31th
  • Solutions (PPT)
  • Mean: 40.97, Median: 42, Std. Dev.: 3.560
  • Including extra credit: Mean: 43.68, Median: 44, Std. Dev.: 4.963
• Assignment 5 (DOC, PDF), due February 7th
  • Solutions (PPT)
  • Mean: 45.71, Median: 47.25, Std. Dev.: 4.754
• Sample Final Project Topics (from Winter 2002)
• Assignment 6 (PPT, PDF) See also hw6help.txt, dc.txt
  • Mean: 33.77, Median: 34, Std. Dev.: 6.046
• Assignment 7 (Starting at slide 59 in the lecture deck: PPT, PDF) See also HW7Prob4Data.txt
  • Mean: 41.97, Median: 44, Std. Dev.: 5.866
• Assignment 8 (DOC, PDF), due February 28th
• Solutions (PPT)
• Schedule of Final Project Presentations
• Final Project Papers and Presentations

Class Mailing List:

TBA

Computer Science & Engineering University of Washington Box 352350 Seattle, WA  98195-2350 (206) 543-1695 voice, (206) 543-2969 FAX [comments to benaloh at cs.washington.edu]