Week 12: Cryptography, secure communication
- Lecture notes:
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Intro to cryptography - Lecture slides
(6 per page)
- Supplemental notes:
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Crypto FAQ ,
RSA Labs
http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/faq/
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Why Cryptography Is Harder Than It Looks, Bruce Schneier.
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Snake Oil Warning Signs: Encryption Software to Avoid
http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/snake-oil-faq.html
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Biometrics: Truths and Fictions,
Crypto-Gram Newsletter, August 15, 1998
http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-9808.html#biometrics
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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.
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Self-Study Course in block Cipher Cryptanalysis, Bruce Schneier,
Cryptologia, v. 24, n. 1, Jan 2000, pp. 18-34.
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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,
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.