Aug 22 differential cryptanalysis of DES: how des works Aug 24 differential cryptanalysis of DES: what diff crypt does for you. Aug 29 differential cryptanalysis of DES: basics of diff crypt Aug 31 differential cryptanalysis of DES: difference distribution table Sep 5 differential cryptanalysis of DES: break 3-round des Sep 7 differential cryptanalysis of DES: characteristics Sep 12 differential cryptanalysis of DES: iteration of characteristics Sep 14 differential cryptanalysis of DES: finish diff crypt Sep 19 Groups Sep 21 Discrete Logs, Shanks' Baby-Giant-Step Sep 26 Elliptic curves: EC over reals Sep 28 Elliptic curves: EC mod p Oct 3 Elliptic curves: Legendre symbol, DLP, D-H Oct 5 Elliptic curves: ElGamal, P-H Oct 12 Elliptic curves: factoring, prime testing Oct 17 Elliptic curves: pairings Oct 19 AES Review Oct 24 Midterm exam Oct 26 Square attack on AES Oct 31 Square attack on AES Nov 2 Review SHA, MD5 Nov 7 Attack SHA, Chabaud+Joux Nov 9 Attack SHA, Chabaud+Joux Nov 14 Attack SHA, Chabaud+Joux Nov 16 Attack SHA, Chabaud+Joux Nov 21 Attack SHA, Chabaud+Joux Nov 23 Lattices Nov 28 Lattices Nov 30 Lattices Dec 5 X.509, Attacks on RSA Dec 7 Generating large random primes