Cryptography Section 51 - Calendar- Fall 2013

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Monday

Wednesday

Friday

Sept. 2
Labor Day
Sept. 4
Lecture #1:
Introduction to Cryptography
Caesar Ciphers
Sept. 6
Homework 1 Due
Lecture #2:
Monoalphabetic Substitution
Frequency Analysis
Sept. 9
Lecture #3:
Vigenere Cipher
Breaking Vigenere
Sept. 11
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Lecture #4:
Modular Arithmetic
Divisibility
Sept. 13
Homework 2 Due
Lecture #5:
Cool Modular Arithmetic Examples
Division Algorithm
Divisibility by 9

Sept. 16
Due: Ghost Map Chapter 1
Lecture #6:
Ghost Map Chapter 1
Affine Cipher
Sept. 18
Lecture #7:
Inverse Mod n
GCD
Sept. 20
Homework 3 Due
Quiz 1
Lecture #8:
Euclidean Algorithm
Sept. 23
Due: Ghost Map Chapter 2
Lecture #9:
Ghost Map Chapter 2
Bezout Theorem
Finding Inverses
Sept. 25
Lecture #10:
Euler Phi Function
Factoring
Breaking Affine Cipher
Sept. 27
Homework 4 Due
Quiz 2
Lecture #11:
Hill Cipher

Sept. 30
Due: Ghost Map Chapter 3
Lecture #12:
Ghost Map Chapter 2 Discussion
Matrices

Oct. 2
Lecture #13:
Mod 29
Known Plaintext attack on Hill
Oct. 4
Homework 5 Due
Lecture #14:
Playfair

Oct. 7
Due: Ghost Map Chapter 4
Lecture #15:
Ghost Map Chapter 4 Discussion
Rectangular Transposition
Vernam Two-Tape
Oct. 9
Quiz 3
Lecture #16:
Vernam encryption

Oct. 11
Homework 6 Due
Lecture #17:
Binary Encryption
Probability
Oct. 14
Due: Ghost Map Chapter 5
Lecture #18:
Ghost Map Chapter 5 Discussion
Random Variables
Oct. 16
Lecture #19:
Conditional Probability
Expected Values
Oct. 18
Quiz 4
Lecture #20:
Expected Value of Sum
Birthday Paradox

Oct. 21
Due: Ghost Map Chapter 6
Homework 7 Due
Lecture #21:
Ghost Map Chapter 6 Discussion
Monty Hall Paradox
Questions for Exam
Oct. 23
Midterm
Oct. 25
Fall Break
Oct. 28
Due: Ghost Map Chapter 7
Lecture #22:
Ghost Map Chapter 7 Discussion
Talk about Projects
Statistics
Oct. 30
Lecture #23:
Central Limit Theorem
Nov. 1
Homework 8 Due
Lecture #24:
Chi-Squared Test
Nov. 4
Due: Ghost Map Chapter 8
Project Groups Decided

Lecture #25:
Ghost Map Chapter 8 Discussion
Using Chi-Squared Test
Nov. 6
Lecture #26:
Probability and Statistics in Code breaking
Breaking Mono-alphabetic
Nov. 8
Quiz 5
Homework 9 Due
Lecture #27:
Index of Coincidence

Nov. 11
Due: Ghost Map Epilogue
Lecture #28:
Finding the period of Vigenere
Nov. 13
Lecture #29:
Introduction to Public Key Systems
Nov. 15
Homework 10 Due
Lecture #30:
Euler's Theorem
Fermat's Theorem
Nov. 18
Lecture #31:
RSA
Nov. 20
Lecture #32:
RSA Example
Nov. 22
Homework 11 Due
Lecture #33:
Using RSA with a computer
Nov. 25
Quiz 6
Lecture #34:
Finding Large Primes
Nov. 27
Thanksgiving Break
Nov. 29
Thanksgiving Break
Dec. 2
Lecture #35:
Using Online Calculators
Different Bases

Dec. 4
Lecture #36:
Using RSA for Signatures
Hash
Dec. 6
Homework 12 Due
Quiz 7
Lecture #37:

Dec. 9
Dec. 11
Dec. 13
Homework 13 Due
Final Exam

Friday, December 20 at 11:00 AM.


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