CMPSC 290G -- Intro to Cryptanalysis

Announcements

• Welcome to CMPSC 290G. You'll find most of what you need here.

Office Hours

• John Black - 1107 HFH - Tues 11am-11:50am and by appt (email: jrblack@cs.ucsb.edu)

Syllabus, Readings, and General Information

• Course information sheet - Please Read
• Rijndael Specification.
• Chapter 1 of DasGupta et al., explains succinctly what math we need for RSA. Includes basic RSA algorithm as well.

Homework

For all problems in every problem set, justify your work unless the answer is exceedingly obvious. "I found this on a website" is not good justification. Use your brain and explain your thought processes.

• Homework #1 - (Out: 1/10/12; Due: 1/24/12)
• Homework #2 - (Out: 1/19/12; Due: 2/07/12)
• Homework #3 - (Out: 2/06/12; Due: 2/23/12)
• Homework #4 - (Out: 2/21/12; Due: 3/08/12)
• Homework #5 - (Out: 3/08/12; Due: 3/22/12)

Other Information

• Ghostscript/Ghostview/GSview - If you need software to preview/print PostScript