CMPSC 290G - Intro to Cryptanalysis - Winter 2012

Course Information Sheet

Jan, 2012



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What's This Course About??

We are going to learn about Cryptography and Cryptanalysis. We may spend a little bit of time on classical crypto, but not much. Our goal is to look at some of the main constructions and attack them. There will be math.

Meetings

TR 9:00am-10:50am (Room PHELP 1401)

Instructor

Grading

There will be occasional homework assignments accounting for 90% of your grade. Class participation will account for 10%.

Prerequisites

This is a hard course to outline the prerequisites for. The best background you could have is the ability to think carefully and precisely in a mathematical context. Have some "mathematical maturity" would be greatly helpful.

Beyond this, having some knowledge about probability theory is useful, as is information theory, modern algebra, complexity theory, algorithms, linear algebra, and other items, but I will try and assume a minimum of this kind of material.

Textbook

No Textbook. We will use several on-line resources as we progress through the class. You may choose to print these out if you work better that way.

Course Web page

We will maintain useful information on the course web page: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~jrblack/class/cmpsc290g/w12

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