Manifest: Monday 17 September 2001

Assignments Due
Before 21 September	Email or talk to me about your project topic ideas
Wednesday, 26 September	Problem Set 2
Monday, 1 October	Projects Preliminary Proposal

Readings
MBC, Chapter 7. Links

• EFF's Clipper archive
• NIST's AES Home Page
• Rijndael Fan Club Home Page
• Block encryption for the 21st century, Bruce Schneier, Dr. Dobb's Journal December 1998 .
• The Advanced Encryption Standard

Questions

• Why would Clipper never work?
• What is AES? How has cryptology changed since the DES Program?
• What are the characteristics of a modern block cipher?
• What are the criteria for choosing a good block cipher?
• How does RC6 work?
• How was Rijndael designed?

FAQ #1. How is that pronounced ? If you're Dutch, Flemish, Indonesian, Surinamer or South-African, it's pronounced like you think it should be. Otherwise, you could pronounce it like "Reign Dahl", "Rain Doll", "Rhine Dahl". We're not picky. As long as you make it sound different from "Region Deal".

From Vincent Rijmen's Rijnadael Page

University of Virginia Department of Computer Science CS 588: Cryptology - Principles and Applications

David Evans evans@virginia.edu