CSE 599R Special Topics - Cryptanalysis (Winter 2009)

John Manferdelli


Time (Winter): Monday, 3-5:50
Location: CSE 203

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Schedule (Subject to Change)

Date

Topics, readings, and assignments

Week 1.
January 5, 2009

Topic: Error Correcting Codes and McEliece's Public Key System.

Lecture Notes: Lecture Notes and Lecture Notes.

Homework Assignment: Homework.

Week 2.

January 12, 2009.

Topic: Boolean Functions.

Lecture Notes: Lecture Notes and Lecture Notes.

Week 3.

January 19, 2009.

Topic: No class.

Week 4.

January 26, 2009.

Topic: MOV attack, Dustin Moody. Guest lecture: Jim Simon, Microsoft Institute for Advanced Government Strategies.

Week 5.

February 2, 2009.

Topic: Linear and differential cryptanalysis of DES. Slava Chernyak, Sourav Sen Gupta.

Week 6.

February 9, 2009.

Topic: Algebraic attacks. Paul Carr. MOV---II, Dan Shumow.

Week 7.

February 16, 2009.

No class.

Week 8.

February 23, 2009.

No class. NIST Hash workshop.

Week 9.

March 2, 2009.

Topic: Attacks on MD4 and MD5, Owen Anderson. Factoring attacks, Wenhan Wang.

Week 10.

March 9, 2009.

Topic: Attacks on Stream ciphers. Karl Koscher (CSE).


jlm@cs.washington.edu