Welcome to the home page for the Computer Science Department's Introduction to Cryptography course CLA CS 591 - Summer 2008. This is the starting point for online course information and documentation.
The normal meeting times for this class are Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 9:30 to 12:00 in MCS 149. Two exceptions are: There will be no class on Monday May 26 and Monday June 16. These two classes will be moved to Fridays in those weeks, so there will be class on Friday, May 30 and Friday, June 21.
Here is the most recent CS 591 Course News.
Here is the current HOMEWORK.
And the past homework assignments: HOMEWORK 1, HOMEWORK 2, HOMEWORK 3, HOMEWORK 4. .
On June 9 we had a short practice midterm. The midterm is on-line together with brief answers to the questions.
There will be points taken off for late assignments.
CS 538 is the department's course on cryptography and coding. In it ciphers and codes, both classical and modern, are studied. Many algorithms for codes and method to decipher codes will be considered. As well, we will study the theoretical underpining of coding theory and try, in a precise way, to understand the security of various cipher systems. It is not a course on system or network security, though it does bear upon this topic and will discuss some of these issues toward the end of the class. The following list of pointers provides access to information concerning the course, the students and the instructors.
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