CSEP590A: Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography Winter 2011

Welcome to Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography, Winter 2011
University of Washington CSEP590A

Instructors:

• Josh Benaloh (benaloh at microsoft dot com)
• Brian LaMacchia (bal at microsoft dot com)

TA:

• Emily Wang (amelie at uw dot edu)

  Office hours: Monday 6:30-7:30pm, CSE 518

Basic Facts:

• Time: Thursdays, 6:30-9:20 PM, Beginning January 6th, 2011
• Locations: UW Allen Center CSE 305 and Microsoft Research Building 99/1915
• Lecture Slides will be posted here.
• Video Archives and Live Streams will be available 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.
• Cryptography: Theory and Practice (3rd. edition), by Stinson

Homework Assignments:

All assignments are to be turned in using the UW Catalyst "Collect It" system. Click here for the course dropbox in Collect It.

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 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.

Assignments:

• Assignment #1, due January 13th, 2011.
• Assignment #2, due January 20th, 2011.
• Assignment #3, due January 27th, 2011.
• Assignment #4, due February 3rd, 2011.
• Final Project Proposals, due February 10th, 2011.
• Assignment #5, due February 17th, 2011.
• Assignment #6, due February 24th, 2011.
• Assignment #7, due March 3rd, 2011.
• Assignment #8, due March 10th, 2011.

Class Mailing List:

• The mailing list for the class is csep590a_wi11@u.washington.edu. If you are enrolled in the class you will be subscribed to this mailing list automatically.

Class Discussion Forum:

• A discussion forum for the class is available on the UW Catalyst "GoPost" system. Click here to visit the course discussion forum.

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