Week 9,10: Cryptography, secure communication
- Lecture notes:
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lecture notes
These notes are from the slides I presented during
lecture - multiple slides were used for pseudo-animation
to show the sequence of encryption. I've truncated some
of them to keep the presentation shorter.
Intro to cryptography - Lecture slides
(6 per page)
Cryptographic Communication lecture slides
(6 per page)
- Recitation notes:
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- Supplemental notes:
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Crypto FAQ ,
RSA Labs
http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/faq/
Why Cryptography Is Harder Than It Looks, Bruce Schneier.
Snake Oil Warning Signs: Encryption Software to Avoid
http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/snake-oil-faq.html
Biometrics: Truths and Fictions,
Crypto-Gram Newsletter, August 15, 1998
http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-9808.html#biometrics
One-Time Pads,
Crypto-Gram NewsletterL: October 15, 2002.
http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0210.html#7
The Lorenz Cipher and how Bletchley Park Broke it, by Tony Sale:
an insight into how a pseudo-one-time-pad system was broken.
Self-Study Course in block Cipher Cryptanalysis, Bruce Schneier,
Cryptologia, v. 24, n. 1, Jan 2000, pp. 18-34.
An overview of existing literature on block-cipher cryptanalysis.
- Buzzwords:
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encryption, decryption, plaintext, ciphertext, cryptographic
algorithm, restricted cipher, cipher, key, symmetric algorithm,
public key algorithm, one-way functions, hash function, encrypted
hash, public keys, private keys, hash collision,
stream cipher, block cipher,
substitution ciphers, Caesar cipher, frequency analysis, polyalphabetic
cipher, transposition ciphers, rotor machines, one-time pads, DES,
meet-in-the-middle attack, triple-DES, secure communication,
key exchange, Diffie-Hellman, exponential key exchange, session key,
RSA, hybrid cryptosystems, digital signatures,
arbitrated protocols, trusted third party.
