\ CMSC-691g Internet Security: Lectures

CMSC-691g Internet Security: Lectures (Spring 1996)

  1. Monday, January 29. Introduction: one-time pad, public-key cryptology, RSA, digital signatures, notions of security.
  2. Wednesday January 31. Math background: Extended Euclid's algorithms and the chinese remained theorem.
  3. Monday, February 5. Mathematical properties for the RSA cryptsystem.
  4. Wednesday, February 7. Security of Rabin's cryptosystem.
  5. Monday, February 12. Blind signatures and Chaum's big brother paper.
  6. Wednesday, February 14. Protocols: Needham/Schroder, Diffie-Hellman Key exchange, 0-knowledge
  7. Monday, February 19. More protocols: 0-knowledge 3-coloring, mental poker, discuss crypto workshop of the 1996 ACM Computer Science Conference, which was organized by Alan Sherman and which featured invited speakers Rafael Hirschfeld and Clifford Neuman.
  8. Wednesday, February 21. Discuss Brands's paper on untraceable off-line cash in wallet with observers.
  9. Monday, February 26. Discuss Neuman's IEEE survey paper on Security, Payment, and Privacy.
  10. Wednesday, February 28. Factoring and primality testing. Pollard's rho method for factoring integers. Fermat's test and its variations.
  11. Monday, March 4. Discuss paper by Medvinsky and Neuman on Netcash.
  12. Wednesday, March 6. Data Encryption Standard, including Hellman's time-space tradeoff.
  13. Monday, March 11. Discuss Crypto 91 paper by Tatsuaki Okamoto and Kazuo Ohta.
  14. Wednesday, March 13. Discuss progress reports on term projects.

    Monday, March 18-22, No class--spring break.

  15. Monday, March 25. Clipper and key escrow.
  16. Wednesday, 27. Key Escrow, including taxonomy paper by Denning and Branstad.
  17. Monday, April 1. Discuss Crypto 88 paper on ecash by Chaum, Fiat, and Naor.
  18. Wednesday, April 3. Discuss paper by Ravi Ganesan on the Yaksha key escrow system.
  19. Monday, April 8. Discuss Paul Kocher's timing attack.
  20. Wednesday, April 10. Associative one-way functions.
  21. Monday, April 15. Guest lecture on firewalls by Marcus Ranum.
  22. Wednesday, April 17. Privacy enhanced mail by Stephen Kent.
  23. Monday, April 22. Abstracts due. How to break Gifford's cipher.
  24. Wednesday, April 24. Student presentation: Ali Selcuk.
  25. Monday, April 29. Student presentation: Qi He.
  26. Wednesday, May 1. Student presentation: Ben Holcombe.
  27. Monday, May 6. No class meeting due to special guest lecture on Toy Story.
  28. Wednesday, May 8. Student presentation: Mike Gillio and Ann Pollack. Last scheduled lecture. Project reports due.
  29. Wednesday, May 15. Scheduled final exam, which time we will use for the last student presentation, 3:30-5:30pm: Greg Sylvain.