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CMSC-691g Internet Security: Lectures
CMSC-691g Internet Security: Lectures (Spring 1996)
- Monday, January 29.
Introduction: one-time pad, public-key cryptology, RSA, digital signatures, notions of security.
- Wednesday January 31.
Math background: Extended Euclid's algorithms and the chinese remained theorem.
- Monday, February 5.
Mathematical properties for the RSA cryptsystem.
- Wednesday, February 7.
Security of Rabin's cryptosystem.
- Monday, February 12.
Blind signatures and Chaum's big brother paper.
- Wednesday, February 14.
Protocols: Needham/Schroder, Diffie-Hellman Key exchange, 0-knowledge
- 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.
- Wednesday, February 21. Discuss Brands's paper on
untraceable off-line cash in wallet with observers.
- Monday, February 26. Discuss Neuman's IEEE survey paper
on Security, Payment, and Privacy.
- Wednesday, February 28. Factoring and primality testing.
Pollard's rho method for factoring integers.
Fermat's test and its variations.
- Monday, March 4. Discuss paper by Medvinsky and Neuman on
Netcash.
- Wednesday, March 6. Data Encryption Standard, including
Hellman's time-space tradeoff.
- Monday, March 11. Discuss Crypto 91 paper by
Tatsuaki Okamoto and Kazuo Ohta.
- Wednesday, March 13. Discuss progress reports
on term projects.
Monday, March 18-22, No class--spring break.
- Monday, March 25. Clipper and key escrow.
- Wednesday, 27. Key Escrow, including taxonomy paper
by Denning and Branstad.
- Monday, April 1. Discuss Crypto 88
paper on ecash by Chaum, Fiat, and Naor.
- Wednesday, April 3. Discuss paper
by Ravi Ganesan on the Yaksha key escrow system.
- Monday, April 8. Discuss Paul Kocher's
timing attack.
- Wednesday, April 10. Associative
one-way functions.
- Monday, April 15.
Guest lecture on firewalls
by Marcus Ranum.
- Wednesday, April 17. Privacy enhanced mail by Stephen Kent.
- Monday, April 22. Abstracts due.
How to break Gifford's cipher.
- Wednesday, April 24. Student presentation: Ali Selcuk.
- Monday, April 29. Student presentation: Qi He.
- Wednesday, May 1. Student presentation: Ben Holcombe.
- Monday, May 6. No class meeting due to
special guest lecture on
Toy Story.
- Wednesday, May 8. Student presentation: Mike Gillio
and Ann Pollack.
Last scheduled lecture.
Project reports due.
- Wednesday, May 15. Scheduled final exam, which time we will
use for the last student presentation, 3:30-5:30pm: Greg Sylvain.