Instructor: Guevara Noubir, email: noubir@ccs.neu.edu, phone: (617) 373 5205, office: 238 WVH.

Time: Monday 6:00-9:00PM.

Office Hours: Wed 1:00-3:00 PM.

Teaching Assistant: TBD

Required Textbook: "Cryptography: Theory and Practice", (Second Edition), Douglas R. Stinston, Chapman & Hall/CRC,  2002. Latest Errata.

Course Home Page. http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/noubir/Courses/CSG252/F04. 

Prerequisites: MTH 3001 (Foundations in Mathematics & Theory) or permission of instructor.

Course Direction: MS: Theory, Networks; PhD: Networks.

Course Description: This course provides a graduate-level introduction to cryptography.

• [PDF] Classical Cryptography
• [PDF] Shannon's Theory
• [PDF] Block Ciphers
• [PDF] Stream Ciphers
• [PDF] Hash Functions
• [PDF] Public Key Cryptography: RSA

• Midterm Exam

• [PDF] Public Key Cryptography: Discrete Logarithm
• [PDF] Signature Schemes
• [PDF] Application of Cryptograph to Secure Networking (IPsec, IKE)
• [PDF] Protocols and Zero Knowledge Proofs
• [PDF] Electronic Voting, Secret Sharing, and PKI

Grading: The course grade will be based on:

• Problem Sets (40%), 

• Midterm (30%),

• Project (30%)

Problem sets:  PS1 [Word, PDF], PS2 [Word, PDF], PS3 [Word, PDF], PS4 [Word, PDF], PS5 [Word, PDF], PS6 [Word, PDF],PS7 [Word, PDF].

Solutions sketch: PS1 [PDF], PS2 [PDF], PS3 [PDF], PS4 [PDF], PS5 [PDF], PS6 [PDF], PS7 [PDF].

Midtem: The midtem will take place on November 1st. Please mark your calendars and make sure that you will be able to attend the midterm.