CSE 364, Fall 2007

CSE 364 Fall 2007 - Crypto: Primitives and Protocols

Fall 2007

Tuesday 6:00pm-9:00, Room ITE Building 119 .

Office Hours: Tuesday 3:30pm-5, Wednesday 5:00pm-7:00pm and by appointment.

Teaching Assistants: Serdar Pehlivanoglu and Hong-Sheng Zhou

Office Hours: Tuesday 2:00pm-5 room 215 ITE and by appointment.

Lecture Notes :

August 28 : Lecture 1

September 4 : Lecture 2

September 11 : Lecture 3

September 18 : Lecture 4

September 25 : Lecture 5

October 2 : Lecture 6

October 9 : Lecture 7

October 16 : Midterm. Second half The Universal Composition Framework (see here for notes)

October 23 : The Universal Composition Theorem. (see here for notes)

October 30 : Hong-Sheng's slides on the UC framework. Also please check the assigned reading

November 6 : Lecture 11 . Also consult the accompanying detailed lecture notes on games.

November 13 : Lecture 12 . Privacy Primitives.

November 27 : Lecture 13. Distributing trust.

December 4 : Lecture 14. Broadcast encryption and Digital Rights Management.

Announcements :

Homework 4 is due December 4
Homework 3 is due November 27
The solutions of the homeworks are available; send e-mail to the TA's to obtain a copy.
The midterm is scheduled for Tuesday October 16th. See also the midterm review.
Homework 2 is due October 9
You have 8 late days to use throughout the semester to hand-in your homework.
Homework 1 is due September 18!
The class syllabus is available here .

Class Material:

Useful Links

An excellent resource for those that are interested in research in this area is the web-site of the The International Association for Cryptologic Research . Students that are interested in this area, are encouraged to become members.

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