| Volker Sorge | 10 credits in Semester 1 |
The Review Suggestions have been updated and some mistakes have been corrected in the handouts and solutions. Please see the Errata for details.
Some pictures from the Field Trip to Bletchley Park are here. If you have others, please contribute.
Field Trip to Bletchley Park, Wednesday 13th: We will leave at 10 am sharp(!) from the roundabout between University station and building 18. See part C on the campus map. We should be back before 6pm.
There will be an Exercise session on Tuesday 5th of December at 6pm in LR7, Arts (Building 32 on the Campus Map). Please have a look at the exercises so far and prepare questions.
There will be an Exercise session on Friday 10th of November at 5pm in LG32, Learning Centre. Please have a look at the exercises so far and prepare questions.
Please observe that we have another change of lecture theatre on Tuesday and have changed lecture time for Thursday. For details see below.
We had new lecture theatres assigned. For details see below.
Handout 1 has been reworked. The old handout 1 is obsolete (including Mathematics 1!). You can get the new handout in the lecture Thursday 5 Oct or download it below.
If you have any questions, problems, or comments, please email me or come and see me during my office hours Thursdays 2-3pm after the lecture. To see me outside these office hours, please email me and suggest some times, which are compatible with my timetable.
When emailing, please observe that you can expect the fastest response, when your email is short and in plain ASCII. If you have to send attachments, please make sure they are in some open standard format. In particular, do NOT send MS word files. Why? See here.
| Title | Author(s) | Publisher | Comments |
| Practical Cryptography | Fergueson, Schneier | John Wiley & Sons | Supplementary Reading |
| Applied Cryptography | Schneier | John Wiley & Sons | Supplementary Reading |
| Handbook of Applied Cryptography | Menezes, van Oorschot, Vanstone | CRC Press | Supplementary Reading |
| Cryptography | Smart | McGraw Hill | Supplementary Reading |
| Beginning Cryptography with Java | Hook | John Wiley & Sons | Book on Programming |
| Contemporary Cryptology | Catalano, Cramer, Damgard, DiCrescenzo, Pointcheval, Takagi | Springer Verlag | Advanced Material |
| Week | Topic | Handout | Solution |
| 0 | General Information | gzipped PostScript, pdf | |
| 1 | Historical Ciphers | gzipped PostScript, pdf | gzipped PostScript, pdf |
| 2 | Block Ciphers: Feistel Ciphers, DES | gzipped PostScript, pdf | gzipped PostScript, pdf |
| 3 | Modes of Operations, Cryptomeria | gzipped PostScript, pdf | gzipped PostScript, pdf |
| 4 | AES (Rijndael), Finite Fields | gzipped PostScript, pdf | gzipped PostScript, pdf |
| 5 | Stream Ciphers: RC4, LFSR, CSS, A5/1 | gzipped PostScript, pdf | gzipped PostScript, pdf |
| 6 | Key Exchange Protocols, Overview of Cryptanalysis techniques | gzipped PostScript, pdf | |
| 7 | Cryptographic Hash Functions and Message Authetication Codes | gzipped PostScript, pdf | gzipped PostScript, pdf |
| 8 | Public Key Cryptography, Discrete Logarithms | gzipped PostScript, pdf | gzipped PostScript, pdf |
| 9 | RSA, Generating Prime Numbers, Arithmetic Modulo Composites | gzipped PostScript,
pdf |
gzipped PostScript, pdf |
| 10 | Digital Signatures | gzipped PostScript, pdf | |
| 11 | Certificates, Commitment Schemes, Zero Knowledge Proofs | gzipped PostScript, pdf | gzipped PostScript, pdf |
| 12 | Review Suggestions | gzipped PostScript, pdf | |
| QC | Quantum Cryptography Guest Lecture by Iain Styles |
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| Glossary | The complete Cryptography glossary | gzipped PostScript, pdf | |
| 13 | Mock Exam | gzipped PostScript, pdf |
Errata can be found here.
Maintained by:
Volker Sorge,
School of Computer Science,
The University of Birmingham
Last modified: Tue Jan 5 21:36:02 GMT 2006