Fall 2017 Syllabus

Dates are subject to radical & arbitrary change. Reading assignments are due prior to beginning of the subsequent class.

Textbooks:

• Jonathan Katz, Yehuda Lindell: Modern Cryptography
• Ross Anderson: Security Engineering (PDFs available online)
• Optional Reference: Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone: Handbook of Applied Cryptography (PDFs available online)

Course Schedule

8/31: Introduction

• Note: Special Thursday class!
• Assignment 1 handed out (via Blackboard)
• Reading: Anderson (Security Engineering), Chapter entitled â��Cryptographyâ��: Sections on â��Symmetric Crypto Primitivesâ�� (5.4 in online version)

9/6: Intro to Cryptographic Primitives I (Symmetric key crypto)

• Reading (supplementary, optional): Handbook of Applied Cryptography, chapter entitled "Block Ciphers".

9/11: Intro to Cryptographic Primitives II (Symmetric key crypto cont�d)

• Reading: Anderson (Security Engineering), Chapter entitled â��Cryptographyâ��: â��Asymmetric Crypto Primitivesâ�� (5.7 in online version).
• Reading (supplementary, optional): Handbook of Applied Cryptography, chapter entitled "Public Key Encryption".

9/13: Intro to Cryptographic Primitives III (Public-key crypto)

• Assignment 1 is due tomorrow (Tuesday 9/19, 11:59pm)!

9/18: Intro to Cryptographic Primitives IV (Public-key crypto)

• Assignment 2 handed out (via Blackboard)
• Reading: Schneier, Wagner: Analysis of the SSL 3.0 Protocol

9/20: Protocols I: SSL/TLS

• [Imperfect Forward Secrecy https://weakdh.org/imperfect-forward-secrecy-ccs15.pdf]

9/25: Protocols II: TLS, IKE and IPSec

• Reading: Borisov, Goldberg, Brewer [Off-the-Record Communication https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/otr-wpes.pdf]

9/27: Protocols III: Messaging Protocols

• Assignment 2 is due tomorrow (Tuesday 10/3, 11:59pm!)

10/2: Side Channel Attacks I

• Assignment 3 handed out (via Blackboard)
• Reading: Kocher, Timing attack on RSA & DL systems
• Reading: Anderson, Physical Tamper Resistance

10/4: Side Channel Attacks II

• Bernstein: Cache timing attacks on AES

10/9: iMessage and messaging protocols

• Reading: Gutmann, Lessons Learned in Implementing and Deploying Crypto Software
• Reading: Adam Langley, GotoFail
• Assignment 1 is due by 11:59pm today, Monday 9/19

10/11: Side Channel Attacks I

• Bernstein: Cache timing attacks on AES
• Assignment 2 given out

10/16: Side Channel Attacks II/Physical Security I

• Reading: Bardou et al., Efficient Padding Oracle Attacks on Cryptographic Hardware
• Reading (optional): Remote Timing Attacks are Practical](https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/papers/ssl-timing.pdf)

10/18: MIDTERM EXAM (IN CLASS)

10/23: Diffie-Hellman and attacks, Protocols intro

• Reading: Checkoway et al. A systematic analysis of the Juniper Dual EC incident

10/25: Protocols I

• Reading: Schneier, Wagner: Analysis of the SSL 3.0 Protocol

10/30: Protocols II

• ZRTP Protocol

11/1: Bitcoin

• Satoshi's Bitcoin Paper

11/6: Software security

11/8: Reverse Engineering Software I

• Biondi, Desclaux: Silver Needle in the Skype (2006, REing of Skype binary)

11/13: Digital Rights Management I

• Lawson: Designing and Attacking DRM

11/15: Digital Rights Management II

• Steil: 17 Mistakes Microsoft Made in the XBox Security

11/27: Provable Security I

• Reading: Bellare, Practice-Oriented Provable Security

11/29: Provable Security II

• Reading: Kohno: Breaking and Repairing SSH
• Assignment 3 is due

12/4: TBD

12/6: TBD