There will be a few homework assignments due approximately in a week from the date of posting the assignment on the web.

Written assignments

Homework 1 - due Saturday, June 15, 8:00 PM

Reading

Lecture 1, Stallings, Chapter 1, Introduction

Lecture 2, Stallings, Section 2.1 Conventional Encryption Model
                                Section 6.1 Principles of Public Key Cryptosystems

Lecture 3, Stallings, Chapter 7, Introduction to Number Theory, Sections 7.1, 7.2, 7.5.

Lecture 4, Stallings, Section 3.2 Block Cipher Principles
                                Section 3.3 The Data Encryption Standard
                                Section 3.4 The Strength of DES