WPI EE-578/CS-578 Cryptography and Data Security

Instructor: Prof. Berk Sunar
Term: Fall 2009
Atwater Kent 302,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Phone: (508) 831 5494
CRIS Research Group

Announcements

• Presentation schedule posted below.
• No class on Nov 25 due to Thanksgiving.

Documents

• Syllabus PDF
• HW1 (Maple Tutorial) PDF
• HW2 PDF Solutions DOC
• HW3 PDF Solutions DOC
• HW4 PDF
• Sample Midterm PDF
• Presentation Schedule HTML

Handouts

• Why Cryptosystems Fail, by Ross Anderson PDF
• RSA Technical Report, Stream Ciphers PDF
• RSA Technical Report, Block Ciphers PDF
• Efficient DES Key Search, by Michael J. Wiener PDF

Links

• Nice little comic strip on AES
• Waterloo Maple Corporate Website
• Maple Tutorial at MIT
• WPI CCC Create New Account
• Basic Unix Commands
• CRIS Cryptography and Information Security Group at WPI
• GNU MP (Multiprecision Library)
• GMP Manual
• RSA Laboratories Crypto FAQ
• Top 500 Supercomputers
• Ron Rivests Links
• International Association for Cryptologic Research IACR
• NIST Computer Security Resource Center
• Funy Crypto Glossary
• Jobs in Cryptology

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