790-095   Applied Cryptography and Network Security

Instructor Mike Reiter
Office: Sitterson Hall 318
Office hour: 2:00-3:00pm on Fridays indicated below
Location Sitterson Hall 155
Meeting times Mondays, Wednesdays 2:00-3:15pm usually (see below)
Fridays 2:00-3:15pm occasionally (see below)
Resources Papers for presentations

Course schedule (subject to change)

Note: Class meets on days/dates in boldface.
Wk Day Date Topic Reading Comments
1 W Jan 9 Course introduction, Finite fields UNC-Chapel Hill computing policy
Instrument of student judicial governance
Honor code observation in computer science courses
 
2 M Jan 14 Finite fields (cont.), Pseudorandom functions Bellare & Rogaway, Ch. 3  
  W Jan 16 Pseudorandom functions (cont.)    
  F Jan 18 Office hour    
3 M Jan 21 Class canceled per academic calendar    
  W Jan 23 Pseudorandom functions (cont.) Bellare & Rogaway, Ch. 2  
  F Jan 25 Office hour    
4 M Jan 28 Symmetric encryption Bellare & Rogaway, Ch. 4  
  W Jan 30 Symmetric encryption (cont.)    
  F Feb 1 Office hour    
5 M Feb 4 Hash functions and MACs Bellare & Rogaway, Ch. 6  
  W Feb 6 Hash functions and MACs (cont.)    
  F Feb 8 Office hour    
6 M Feb 11 Class canceled    
  W Feb 13 Hash functions and MACs (cont.)    
  F Feb 15 Office hour    
7 M Feb 18 Information-theoretic security    
  W Feb 20 Number theory Bellare & Rogaway, Ch. 7  
  F Feb 22 Office hour    
8 M Feb 25 Number theory (cont.) Bellare & Rogaway, Ch. 7'  
  W Feb 27 Assymetric encryption Bellare & Rogaway, Ch. 8  
  F Feb 29 Office hour    
9 M Mar 3 Assymetric encryption (cont.)    
  W Mar 5 Assymetric encryption (cont.)    
  F Mar 7 Office hour    
10 M Mar 10 Class canceled per academic calendar    
  W Mar 12 Class canceled per academic calendar    
11 M Mar 17 Class canceled    
  W Mar 19 Random oracles    
  F Mar 21 Office hour    
12 M Mar 24 Review    
  W Mar 26 Exam    
  F Mar 28 Office hour    
13 M Mar 31 Presentation: Ting-Fang Yen    
  W Apr 2 Presentation: Lei Wei    
14 M Apr 7 Presentation: Xin Huang    
  W Apr 9 Presentation: Tao Yu    
  F Apr 11 Office hour    
15 M Apr 14 Presentation: Mike Merideth    
  W Apr 16 Presentation: Robert Cochran    
  F Apr 18 Office hour    
16 M Apr 21 Presentation: Darrell Bethea    
  W Apr 23 Presentation: Steven Hopper