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Home Assignment |
| 1 - August 27, 2007 |
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| 2 - August 29 |
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| 3 - August 31 |
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| 4 - September 5 |
- Introduction to VBA (PowerPoint)
- For the Word ocument that we wrote in class click here. Note, you would have to change the directory for it to work on your computer.)
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- None (It would be a good idea to review the code we wrote in class.)
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| 5 - September 7 |
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- None (It would be a good idea to review the code we wrote in class.)
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| 6 - September 11 |
- Affine Programming Assignment (Download pdf w/ instructions.)
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- None (If you have not made much progress on the program you need to work on it at home.)
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| 7 - September 14 |
- Continue Programming Affine Cipher
- Sample plaintext click here.
- Sample ciphertext with key, a = 3 and b = 7, click here.
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- Affine Cipher Program is due at the beginning of class on 9/18/2007.
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| 8 - September 18 |
- Introduction to Polyalphabetic Ciphers
- Click here for a Vigenere Table
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- Make sure you are ready for your presentation on 9/20/2007.
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| 9 - September 20 |
- Polyalphabetic cipher presentations
- Cryptanalysis of Vigenere cipher (PowerPoint)
- Student PowerPoint Presentations
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| 10 - September 24 |
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| 11 - September 26 |
- Cryptanalysis of Vigenere (PowerPoint)
- Click here for the Vigenere Encryption tool
- Click here for the Excel Frequency Analysis Tool
- Click here for the Vigenere Cryptanalysis Tool
- Click here for a sample ciphertext
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| 12 - September 28 |
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| 13 - October 2 |
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| 14- October 4 |
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- Email the decrypted text to Mr. Evans' email before class next time.
- Subject: Decryption - Column
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| 15 - October 8 |
- Practice Test #1 (Classical Cryptology) (Download pdf of practice test.)
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| 16 - October 10 |
- Test #1 (Classical Cryptology)
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| 17 - October 12 |
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| 18 - October 16 |
- Stream Ciphers (PowerPoint)
- Mr. Evans' notes from class on the PowerPoint (pdf)
- Linear Feedback Shift Registers
- Click here for the LFSR Excel file.
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| 19 - October 18 |
- Stream Programming Assignment (Download pdf w/ instructions.)
- For help with opening text files using VBA in Excel or Word click here.
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| 20 - October 23 |
- Programming (Stream cipher)
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| 21 - October 25 |
- Programming (Stream cipher)
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| 22 - October 29 |
- Programming (Stream cipher)
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- Make sure you are ready to turn in the stream cipher at the end of class on 10/31.
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| 23 - October 31 |
- Programming (Stream cipher)
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Beginning of Second Quarter
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| 24 - November 6 |
- Intro to Block ciphers (PowerPoint)
- PowerPoints on block ciphers.
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- Work on your PowerPoint and/or read about your topic.
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| 25 - November 8 |
- Complete block cipher PowerPoints.
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| 26 - November 12 |
- Public Key Encryption
- Primes
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| 27 - November 14 |
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| 28 - November 16 |
- Public key encryption assignment
- Write function for GCD
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| 29 - November 20 |
- Write functions for...
- modular inverses
- calculating xn mod m
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| 30 - November 26 |
- Write functions for...
- converting ASCII characters to binary
- converting binary to decimal
- converting decimal to binary
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| 31 - November 28 |
- Programming (Public key encryption)
- Work on public key encrytion/decryption assignment
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| 32 - November 30 |
- Work on public key encrytion/decryption assignment
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| 33 - December 4 |
- Work on public key encrytion/decryption assignment
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- Complete Programming Assignment (RSA)
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| 34 - December 6 |
- Work on public key encrytion/decryption assignment
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| 35 - December 10 |
- Public key decryption assignment
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| 36 - December 12 |
- Public key decryption assignment
- Research hash functions and MD5
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| 37 - December 14 |
- Introduction to key management, digital signatures, and hash functions
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| 38 - December 18 |
- Work on presentation for key management, digital signatures, and hash functions
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- Make sure you are ready for your presentations next class.
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| 39 - December 20 |
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| 40 - January 2, 2008 |
- Finish presentations
- Introduction to Quantum cryptography
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| 41 - January 4 |
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| 42 - January 8 |
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| 43 - January 11 |
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| 44 - January 14 |
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End of Q2 (End of semester course)
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