Hemanta K. Maji: CS 35500 (Fall 2026)

CS 35500: Introduction To Cryptography (Fall 2026)

Schedule: Time: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (11:30 am - 12:20 pm) Location: LWSN B151	Instructor: Hemanta K. Maji Office: LWSN 1177 Maji's office hours: Thursday 09:30am-10:20am, LWSN 1177
StemEd Link: On Brightspace	Teaching Assistants: Ansh Aggarwal (email) and Albert Yu (email) Ansh's office hours: Wednesday 12:30pm-1:30pm, DSAI B022 Albert's office hours: Tuesday 4:00pm-5:00pm, DSAI B022

Course Outline and Policy: [html]

Lectures:

Topic 00: Course Policy and Outline (Week 01)
Topic 01: One-time Pad for Bit-strings (Week 01) ChatGPT Slides
Recommended reading: Sections 2.1 and 3.3 of A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography, Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup
Topic 02: Mathematical Basics (Probability) (Week 01) ChatGPT Slides
A recommended reference: Section 5.3 of An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography, Jeffrey Hoffstein, Jill Pipher, and Joseph H. Silverman
Homework 1 [Source Files: file1 file2] (Due Date: 06 September, 2026)
Discussion. From One-Time Pads to Modern Cryptography and Abstract Mathematics
Topic 03: Groups and Fields (Week 02) ChatGPT Slides
A recommended reference: Sections 2.5 and 1.5 of An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography, Jeffrey Hoffstein, Jill Pipher, and Joseph H. Silverman
Homework 2 [Source Files: file1 file2] (Due Date: 20 September, 2026)
Topic 05: Repeated Squaring (Week 03) ChatGPT Slides
Topic 06: Private-key Encryption (Definition and Security of One-time Pad) (Week 03) ChatGPT Slides
Topic 07: Graph Representation (Week 03) ChatGPT Slides

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CS 55500 ( Fall 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2016 )

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