CSE539 -- Applied Cryptography, Spring 2018

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Class 1:

· Introduction

· Administrivia, Cryptography, Grading, Course contents

· Number Theory

· Course topics

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Class 2:

· Crypto basics

· Kerchoffs Principle

· Random numbers, hash functions and encryption

· Confusion and Diffusion

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Class 3:

· Encryption History

· Building block for encryption algorithms

· Encryption modes

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Class 4:

· DES slides, description

· AES slides

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Class 5:

· RC-4 cipher

· Random Numbers

· Generating CSPRNG

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Class 6:

· BBS

· Random numbers using DBRG (standards)

· Hash functions, slides

· MD-5, SHA

· Birthday attacks

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Class 7:

· Key Exchange

· Merkle’s puzzles paper, explanation

· Diffie helman Key Exchange - paper

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Class 8:

· DH key exchange and MITM attacks

· RSA – the algorithm

· Using public keys for authentication, key exchange, secret messaging, signatures, certificates

· MITM attacks

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Class 9:

· Authentication

· Password Storage

· Unix Passwords and Salt

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Class 10:

· Passwords and brute force

· Dictionary Attacks and Rainbow tables

· Kerberos

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Class 11:

· Needham and Schroder

· Kerberos

· Secret Communications (secrecy, authentication, integrity)

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Class 12:

· Secure Communications (resend, interlock, MITM)

· Digital Signatures and Certificates

· Certificate Authorities

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Class 13:

· Certificates, verification

· Basic SSL protocol info

· More details on SSL slides, specifications

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Class 14:

· Attacks on SSL

· Smartcards

· Time, hash based, Ubico

· PKI cards

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Class 15:

· Computer Security

· Vulnerabilities

· Buffer overflow

· Injection attacks

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Mid Term Exam

Class 16:

· Root of Trust

· Ken Thompson Turing award paper, another view

· RSA and number theory proof

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Class 17:

· RSA property

· Finding e and d

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Class 18:

· Primality testing Fermat Test, Miller Rabin

· Fast exponentiation

· RPC-CRT explanation

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Class 19:

· Commutative and Homomorphic Encryption

· Computing with encrypted data

· Mental Poker

· Bit commitment

· Oblivious transfer

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Class 20:

· Oblivious transfer

· Blind Signatures

· Timestamping

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Class 21:

· Distributed Timestamps

· Secure Multiparty – Dining Cryptographers

· Anon Communications – Mixnets

· Secret Splitting, Secret Sharing

· Proxy Signatures

· Group Signatures

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Class 22:

· Group Signatures

· Fail Stop Signatures

· Confirmable Signatures

· Millionaire/Socialist Millionaire problems

· Zero Knowledge Proofs

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Class 23:

· Zero Knowledge Proofs

· Parallel and non-interactive ZKP

· Feige Fiat Shamir proof of Identity

· Off the record messaging talk by Ian Goldberg

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Class 24:

· OTR with Socialist Millionaire 1. OTR Page 2. OTR protocol 3. Explanation

· Randomized Response Technique

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Class 25:

· Anonymous Money Orders

· One Way Accumulators

· Subliminal Channels

· Simultaneous Contract Signing

· Elections

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Class 26:

· Secure Elections

· Bitcoin intro

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Class 27:

· Bitcoin, blockchain, proof of work

· Digital Cash

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Class 28:

· Digital Cash

· ECC

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Class 29:

· Review class

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