Calendar

This calendar is subject to change. Reading assignments outside the textbook are not included. Class manifests contain details on the reading assignments and topics.

Introduction and Background
Wednesday, 30 August	Lecture 1: Introduction, History of Cryptography, Monoalphabetic Substitution Cipher and Cryptanalysis Out: Problem Set 1 - Security Principles, Jefferson Wheel, One-Time Pad; Project Ideas Due (Thursday, 31 August): Problem Set 0 - Survey
Symmetric Ciphers
Monday, 4 September	Lecture 2: Shannon Principles; Polyalphabetic Ciphers: Vigenere Read before class: Stallings Ch 1 & 2; Feynman, "Safecracker Meets Safecracker"
Wednesday, 6 September	Lecture 3: Enigma, Intro to Block Ciphers - Feistel Read before: Ch 3
Monday, 11 September	Lecture 4: DES Details and Attacks; Modes of Operation; Triple DES Due: Problem Set 1 Read before: Ch 4
Wednesday, 13 September	Lecture 5: Clipper; AES Candidates Out: Problem Set 2
Public-Key Cryptography
Monday, 18 September	Lecture 6: Key Exchange Read before: Ch 6 Due: Preliminary Project Topic Proposal
Wednesday, 20 September	Lecture 7: RSA, number theory behind RSA Read before: reread Ch 6.2
Protocols
Monday, 25 September	Lecture 8: Security of RSA Read before: Ch 7
Wednesday, 27 September	Lecture 9: Hashing, Digital Signatures Read before: Ch 8, 9.1, 9.2 Due: Problem Set 2 Out: Problem Set 3 - Public-Key Cryptosystems
Cryptography Applications
Monday, 2 October	Lecture 10: Guest lecture by Paco Hope (Chain Mail, Inc.) Read before: Ch 12
Wednesday, 4 October	Lecture 11: Authentication: passwords, SSH Read before: Ch 12.1, 14.2, 14.3 Due: Project Proposals
Monday, 9 October	Lecture 12: Randomness; Digital Cash Read before: Papers, see manifest
Wednesday, 11 October	Lecture 13: Factoring Due: Problem Set 3
Quantum Cryptography
Monday, 16 October	Lecture 14: Quantum Cryptography, Visual Cryptography
Midterm
Wednesday, 18 October	Midterm - Covers PS1-3, Lectures 1-13, Readings through Lecture 13
Monday, 23 October	Fall Break
System Security
Wednesday, 25 October	Lecture 15: System Security Principles, Access Control, Capabilities
Malicious Code
Monday, 30 October	Lecture 16: Malicious Code - Morris Worm, Melissa, ILoveYou; Defenses; Trick-or-Treat Protocols
Wednesday, 1 November	Lecture 17: Malcode Countermeasures: Reference Monitors
Monday, 6 November	Lecture 18: Java; Voting
Intrusion Detection
Wednesday, 8 November	Guest Lecture by Chenxi Wang Due: Project Progress Reports (by email 10 November)
Monday, 13 November	Lecture 19: Proof-Carrying Code
Wednesday, 15 November	Guest Lecture by Gary McGraw Out: Problem Set 4 - Malicious Code, Web Security
Monday, 20 November	Lecture 20: Firewalls and Intrusion Detection
Wednesday, 22 November	Thanksgiving
Monday, 27 November	Lecture 21: Government spying, Anonymity
Summary
Wednesday, 29 November	Project Presentations Due: Problem Set 4
Monday, 4 December	Project Presentations
Wednesday, 6 December	Security Jeapordy: Who wants to be a Quadrillionaire? Due: Project Reports Out: Take-home Final

University of Virginia Department of Computer Science CS 551: Security and Privacy on the Internet

David Evans evans@virginia.edu