• Coursework. Coursework will consist of homeworks, class presentations, and a course project. The overall grade will be determined 30% from homeworks, 30% from class presentation(s), and 40% from the final project. Group work on homeworks is permitted, but each student must list his or her collaborators in writing for each problem. If a student turns in a solution without listing the others who helped produce this solution, this act will be considered cheating (for it is plagarism). (See the ICS Cheating Policy.) Late homework assignments will not be accepted.
  
• Text. Pfleeger, Security in Computing, 2nd edition.
• Add/drop policy. All drop requests should be given to Prof. Goodrich at office hours or by appointment. Drops will be accepted only up to the fourth week. Once your drop card has been signed, further coursework from you will not be graded. After the seventh week of classes, withdrawals will be allowed only by petition and under documented extenuating circumstances, in accordance with ICS departmental policy.

Tentative Schedule

• Week 1:
• Introduction. Elementary cryptography. Public-key and symmetric encryption. One-way hash functions.
• Week 2:
• Elementary number theory. Discrete logarithms. Modular arithmetic.
• Week 3:
• Public-key algorithms. RSA. El Gamal. Digitial Signatures.
• Week 4:
• Network security. IPSec. Denial-of-service attacks. Email security. Web security.
• Week 5:
• eCash and eTickets. Digital certificates. Revocation.
• Week 6:
• Privacy and Anonymous communication.
• Week 7:
• Threshold cryptography and secret sharing. Searching in encrypted data.
• Week 8:
• Server-aided algorithms and security for ad-hoc networks.
• Week 9:
• Protocols. Oblivous transfer. Certified email. Coin flipping. Electronic lotteries.
• Week 10:
  • Temporial and Active security. Steganography.

Copyright © 2002 Michael T. Goodrich, as to all lectures. Students are prohibited from selling (or being paid for taking) notes during this course to or by any person or commercial firm without the express written permission of the professor teaching this course.