• Time: Tuesday and Thursday (03:00 pm - 04:15 pm)
• Location: Creighton Hall of Animal Sci 1011

• Hemanta K. Maji
• Office: LWSN 1177
• Online Office Hours: Appointment by email

On Brightspace

• Xiuyu Ye (email) and Albert Yu (email)
• Office: HAAS 143
• TA Office Hours: Tuesday 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm and Friday 10:30 am to 11:30 am

• Topic 00: Course Policy and Outline (Week 01)
  
• Topic 01: Mathematical Basics (Summations) (Week 01)
  Another way to estimate sums: Abel's Summation Formula
  
• Topic 02: Mathematical Basics (Probability) (Week 01)
  
• Homework 1 [Source Files: file1 file2] (Due Date: 21 January, 2024)
  
• Topic 03: One-time Pad for Bit-strings (Week 02)
  
• Topic 04: Groups and Fields (Week 02)
  
• Homework 2 [Source Files: file1 file2] (Due Date: 04 February, 2024)
  
• Topic 06: Repeated Squaring (Week 03)
  
• Topic 07: Private-key Encryption (Definition and Security of One-time Pad) (Week 04)
  
• Topic 08: Graph Representation (Week 04)
  
• Topic 09: Shamir Secret-sharing Scheme (Introduction) (Week 05)
  
• Homework 3 [Source Files: file1 file2] (Due Date: 25 February, 2024)
  
• Topic 10: Shamir Secret-sharing Scheme (Lagrange Interpolation) (Week 05)
  
• Topic 12: Efficient Algorithms (Week 06)
  
• Topic 13: Generating Large Primes (Week 07)
  
• Topic 14: Extended GCD Algorithm (Week 07)
  
• Homework 4 [Source Files: file1 file2] (Due Date: 10 March, 2024)
  
• Topic 15: One-way Functions (Week 08)
  
• Topic 17: Pseudo-random Generators (Week 09)
  
• Topic 18: Encrypting Long Messages (Week 09)
  
• Topic 19: Random Functions and Encrypting Long Messages (Week 09)
  
• Spring Break (Week 10)
  
• Topic 20: Pseudorandom Functions (Week 11)
  
• Midterm
  
• Homework 5 [Source Files: file1 file2] (Due Date: 14 April, 2024)
  
• Topic 21: Message Authentication Codes (Week 12)
  
• Topic 22: Message Authentication Codes from PRF (Week 12)
  
• Topic 23: Collision-Resistant Hash Function (Week 12)
  
• Topic 24: RSA Assumption (Week 13)
  
• Topic 25: RSA Encryption (Week 13)
  
• Topic 26: Digital Signatures using RSA Assumption (Week 14)
  
• Topic 27: Digital Signatures for Arbitrary-length Messages (Week 14)
  
• Homework 6 [Source Files: file1 file2] (Due Date: 21 April, 2024)
  
• Topic 28: DDH Assumption, Key Agreement, and ElGamal Encryption (Week 15)
  
• Midterm Solution Discussion
• Quantum Cryptography: Introduction (Week 16)
  
• Revision

CS 35500 (Fall 2022)

CS 35500 (Spring 2021)

CS 35500 (Fall 2020)

CS 35500 (Spring 2020)

CS 35500 (Fall 2018)

CS 35500 (Fall 2017)

CS 55500 (Fall 2023)

CS 55500 (Fall 2021)

CS 55500 (Fall 2016)

• Lecture Notes on Cryptography, Shafi Goldwasser and Mihir Bellare
• A Course in Cryptography, Rafael Pass and Abhi Shelat
• Introduction to Cryptography, Jonathan Katz

• A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup
• Introduction to Modern Cryptography, Second Edition, Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell
• Foundations of Cryptography: Volume 1, Basic Tools, Oded Goldreich
• Foundations of Cryptography: Volume 2, Basic Applications, Oded Goldreich