| Date | Paper | Agenda |
| Aug 25 Mon | Intro to Cryptography (John) | Introduction and Overview (John) |
| Aug 27 Wed | Intro to Crypto Basics (John) | |
| Sep 01 Mon | Labor Day (No Class) | |
| Sep 03 Wed | Symmetric Key Notes | Symmetric Key Cryptography (Jing) |
| Sep 08 Mon | Groups and RSA | The RSA Cryptosystem (Brian) |
| Sep 10 Wed | RSA backdoors | RSA and Backdoors (Brian) |
| Sep 15 Mon | Shamir's secret-sharing | Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme (Curtis) |
| Sep 17 Weds | Twenty years of attacks on the RSA cryptosystem | RSA Security (Martin) |
| Sep 22 Mon | Database Security | Database Security (Mazdak) |
| Sep 24 Weds | McEliece Cryptosystem | Overview of the McEliece Cryptosystem (Mark) |
| Sep 29 Mon | Why Johnny Can't Encrypt | A Usability Study of PGP 5.0 (Jerry) |
| Oct 01 Weds | Watermarking Paper | Felten's Paper on Breaking Watermarks (Jing) |
| Oct 06 Mon | Buffer Overruns | A tutorial on buffer overruns by Aleph One (John) |
| Oct 08 Weds | Diebold voting system analysis | Flaws in the Diebold Voting system by the JHU team (Martin) |
| Oct 13 Mon | Timelock Cryptography | Rivest, Shamir, Wagner Paper on Timelock Crypto (Brian) |
| Oct 15 Weds | Code Obfuscation | van Oorschot's paper on Whitebox Cryptography (Curtis) |
| Oct 20 Mon | Disposable credit-cards | Disposable Credit Cards by Rubin and Wright (Jerry) |
| Oct 22 Weds | DRM Paper | Circumventing CD Copy Protection (Mazdak) |
| Oct 27 -- Nov 24 | Three-Key Paper (John) | |
| Dec 01 Mon | TBC's [Liskov, Rivest, Wagner] | Tweakable Block Ciphers (Martin) |
| Dec 03 Weds | Searching Encrypted Data | Searching on encrypted data [Song, Wagner, Perrig] (Curtis) |
| Dec 08 Mon | Hash Funcs from Block Ciphers | Hash Functions from Block Ciphers (Tom) |
| Dec 03 Weds | Shor's | Shor's Algorithm for Factoring (Mark) |