Introduction to Cryptography (203.3444/203.4444) Homepage - Spring Semester 2010

• General Information
• Announcements
• Slides
• References and Online Material
• Homework Assignments
• Past Exams

• In PDF
• In Open Document

Course's staff

• Instructor: Orr Dunkelman,
  phone 8447, room 408.
  Office hour: Tue. 15:00-16:00

Class hours

• Lecture: Tue. 16:10-19:00, Education 401.

Exam dates

• Final Exam A: Fri., 21/6/11.
• Final Exam B: Sun., 12/7/11.

Grading policy

• 30% Homework Magen - 5 exercises, each worth 6% Magen.
• 70% Final Exam

Prerequisites and Requirements

• Probabilistic Methods - 203.2480

• 8.7.11 - Office hours for the exam: Mon. 11/7 at 16:00-18:00.
• 18.6.11 - Please note that Moed Gimmel will be an oral exam. You should follow the standard procedure to obtain the right to approach a Moed Gimmel, and then we will set up a date among all of those who are entitled to it.
• 14.6.11 - With respect to the exam:
  • Exam date: Tue. 21/6 at 12:30
  • Office hours: Mon. 20/6 at 16:00-18:00
  • Material: Everything that we covered in class, whether it is in the slides or not.
  • The exam is an open book exam - bring with you whatever printed material you'd like to have with you. No electronic devices be allowed.
  • The exam has 4 questions. The "concepts" are like those you've seen in the homework exercises. Other exams can be found on the website of the course in the Technion.
  • Good luck!
• 11.5.11 - It was brought to my attention that some of you have tried to contact me by email over the past few months and did not receive an answer. If this is the case, please send again a mail to my email address, and CC orrd (at) cs (dot) technion (dot) ac (dot) il, to help in debugging the problem (and if you still require an answer to your email - please send it again to both addresses).
• 4.5.11 - Exercise 2 was graded. Your grade can be viewed at the url http://www.cs.haifa.ac.il/~orrd/IntroToCrypto/Spring10/(your id number in 9 digits).txt.
• 2.5.11 - Reminder: the class on the 17th of May will not take place.
• 12.4.11 - Exercise 1 was graded. Your grade can be viewed at the url http://www.cs.haifa.ac.il/~orrd/IntroToCrypto/Spring10/(your id number in 9 digits).txt.

• Douglas R. Stinson, Cryptography Theory and Practice
• Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone, Handbook of Applied Cryptography

On-line material

• DES and triple-DES Specifications
• AES Specifications
• FIPS-180 (SHA1, SHA2, etc.)
• FIPS Publication of DSS May 19, 1994
• FIPS Publication of DSS Dec 15, 1998
• FIPS Publication of DSS Jan 27, 2000
• FIPS Publication of DSS Jun, 2009
• The Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC) FIPS (Mar 6, 2002)
• A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

Relevant Links

• NIST's official AES homepage
• NIST's SHA-3 competition website
• NESSIE - New European Schemes for Signatures Integrity and Encryption
• ECRYPT II - Network of Excellence for cryptology
• Applied Kid Cryptography
• Visual Cryptography
• The Amazing Tachman Family
• ROT13
• Rijndael in Flash animation

• Moed B of Spring 2010
• Moed A of Spring 2010