CS-627 - Cryptology

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Spring 2007 Semester

© 2007 Charles Abzug

Announcements and Record of Updates:

· 23 Mar 2007, 1630 hrs: Reading Assignments:

27-29 March: Stallings Chapters 5& 6

03-05 April: Stallings Chapters 7 & 8

10-12 April: Stallings Chapters 9 & 10

17-19 April: Stallings Chapters 11, 12, & 13

24-26 April: Stallings Chapters 14 & 15

01-03 May: To be announced

· 09 Feb 2006. 0230 hrs: The slide set describing the programming projects has been updated to include the name specification for the program file(s) for PART II.

· 06 Feb 2007, 1750 hrs: Summary of reading assignments for the first part of the semester:

Week 1 (due 11 Jan): Simon Singh’s “The Code Book”, pages ix through 142.
Week 2 (due 18 Jan): Simon Singh’s “The Code Book”, pages 143-316.
Week 3 (due 25 Jan): Ferguson and Schneier’s “Practical Cryptography”, pages xix-66.
Week 4 (due 01 Feb): Ferguson and Schneier’s “Practical Cryptography”, pages 67-110.
Week 5 (due 13 Feb): Ferguson and Schneier’s “Practical Cryptography”, pages 111-184.
Week 6 (due 15 Feb): Ferguson and Schneier’s “Practical Cryptography”, pages 185-260.
Weed 7 (due 22 Feb): Ferguson and Schneier’s “Practical Cryptography”, pages 261-362.

· 05 Feb 2007, 1430 hrs: Posted updated file on programming project assignments (link appears below). NOTE: Please ignore the changes that have been made to Part I of the programming project assignments.

· 31 Jan 2007, 0610 hrs: Please note that the location for depositing your files is on “stu1”, in the directory: “/cs/shr/CS-627/yourJMUusername”. Please be sure that your files are all named precisely in accordance with the naming convention specified in the posted slide set. Please name your executable file: “crypto-first-project-yourFirstName”, in all lower case and with hyphens, NOT underscores, as word separators.

· 26 Jan 2007, 1200 hrs: Reading assignment for next week: Ferguson and Schneier’s Practical Cryptography: pages 67 through 110.

· 19 Jan 2007, 1400 hrs: Reading assignment for next week: Ferguson and Schneier’s Practical Cryptography: pages xix through 66.

Also, I have revised the assignments file that I discussed yesterday with you in class, and it is now posted (please see link below). Please note that I have made several substantive changes to the program specifications.

· 12 Jan 2007: Course syllabus has been posted. Please see link below.

Course-Related Documents:

Course Syllabus (Adobe “Acrobat” file)

Assignments (Adobe “Acrobat” file)

Instructor Information:

Prof. Abzug's Home Page on the World Wide Web; Prof. Abzug's E-mail: mailto:AbzugCX@jmu.edu