• CTF problems related to these notes
• Feb 11th-13th: Our first brute-force attack (Using Python, Cloud9, CodePen, SHA512. Reversing a hash function. Basic cost of attacks.)
• Feb 13th-18th: Proper Password Storage
• Feb 22nd-27th: Vigeniere, Frequency Analysis, Attack Models, XOR, One-Time Pad
• Feb 27th: Some Historical Ciphers
• Mar 4th - Mar 8th: Modular Arithmetic and Group Theory
• Mar 11th - 13th: Pseduo-Randomness
• Mar 13th and TBA: Cracking LCG and LFSR with Linear Algebra
• Mar 15th - 18th: In a Stream Cipher Mood
• Mar 18th: Stream Cipher Challenge
• Mar 20th: Block Cipher Intro
• Mar 25th: ECB vs CBC Mode, Python Image Library, and Chained CBC weaknesses
• Mar 27th: Block Ciphers as Stream Ciphers: OFB and CTR
• Mar 29th: Project 2, Block Cipher CTF challenge
• Apr 8-10th: Message Authentication Codes (MACs) and Hash Extension
• Apr 12: Secure Channel Design
• Apr 15-17: The Public Key Revolution Diffie-Hellman and Pohlig-Hellman
• Apr 19: El Gamal Encryption
• Apr 22-24: RSA Day!
• SPECIAL Math notes for Pohlig-Hellman and RSA
• Apr 24-26: RSA Vulnerabilities and RSA signatures
• Emergency Back-up Notes
• Apr 29: Lattice Reduction
• May 1: Coppersmith!
• RSA CTF Problem Set
• May 3: Intro to Elliptic Curves
• May 6: Guest Lecture Notes on Quantum Key Distribution (Swati Singh)
• May 8: ECDHE
• LARGE VM for Homomorphic Exercises for May 10th
• May 13: Digital Signature Algorithm
• May 15: Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA)
• May 17: Meet the DTI and talk cyber at the State level
• May 20: Last-Class Thoughts and Threshold Crypto (Shamir's Secret Sharing) (Also Post-quantum LWE encryption example)