CS 355 Resources

Latex Tutorials

• Latex tutorial
• Latex introduction

Math preliminaries

Classical cipher

• Facts and myths of Enigma: breaking stereotypes.  By Kris Gaj and Arkadiusz Orlowski.  In EuroCrypt 2003.

Stream Ciphers: LFSR, WEP, CSS, and GSM

• Linear Feedback Shift Registers
• Security of WEP
• Cryptanalysis of Contents Scrambling System
• Instant Ciphertext-Only Cryptanalysis of GSM Encrypted Communication  by Elad Barkan, Eli Biham, and Nathan Keller

Number Theory

• Dan Boneh's basic number theory fact sheet: for primes and  for composites