Course Handouts and other Documents

Course Announcement (Postscript, PDF)
Syllabus (Postscript, PDF)

Assignments

	Assignment 1 (Postscript, PDF)
	Due at 3:00 pm on Monday January 29th, 2001. Web-based utility: Substitution Cipher Ciphertexts: 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.

	Assignment 2 (Postscript, PDF)
	Due at 3:00 pm on Monday February 5th, 2001. Web-based utility: Vigenère Cipher Ciphertexts: 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.

	Assignment 3 (Postscript, PDF)
	Due at 3:00 pm on Wednesday February 14th, 2001.

	Assignment 4 (Postscript, PDF)
	Due at 3:00 pm on Thursday February 22nd, 2001. Web-based utility: NDS-like Cipher

	Assignment 5 (Postscript, PDF)
	Due at 3:00 pm on Wednesday March 7th, 2001.

	Assignment 6 (Postscript, PDF)
	Due at 3:00 pm on Monday March 12th, 2001.

	Assignment 7 (Postscript, PDF)
	Due at 10:00 am on Thursday March 22nd, 2001.

	Assignment 8 (Postscript, PDF)
	Due at 12:00 noon on Friday March 30th, 2001.

	Assignment 9 (Postscript, PDF)
	Due at 3:00 pm on Monday April 9th, 2001.

Quiz/Test #2

Final Exam

	3:00 - 6:00 pm on Thursday April 19th, 2001.
	Location: HH-3030 and HH-3056.

Books and Online References

• Cryptography - Theory and Practice (This book is on reserve at the QE-II Library)
• Handbook of Applied Cryptography
• An extensive Cryptography FAQ published by RSA
• White Papers published by Certicom

Cryptography Links elsewhere on the net ...

• AES and Rijndael
• EFF DES Cracking Project
• Crypto Class at University of Waterloo (Alfred's class)
• Coding & Cryptology Class at Johns Hopkins University
• Other Crypto Courses and yet more Crypto Courses
• Cryptography Archive

Number Theory Links ...

• The Prime Pages (info on prime numbers, primality testing, etc)

Cryptographic Challenges ...

• Certicom's ECC Challenge
• RSA Challenges