Security Reading Group Calendar, Fall 2005

Below is the calendar for the SIIS Lab's Security Reading Group. This is the preliminary schedule, which may need to be altered as the semester progresses. We will try to keep it updated with papers, presentations and other resources. This reading group is sponsored by the SIIS Lab).

Resources

Introduction to Modern Cryptography By: Mihir Bellare and Phillip Rogaway. Intro classes at UCSD.
Handbook of Applied Cryptography is a freely available book online.
Prof. Zhu's CSE 598b class includes an intro in cryptography and some resources.
Intro to Cryptography by Tal Malkin. Includes readings, lecture notes (scribed by students), and problem sets
Lecture Notes (290 pp.) from a summer crypto course taught at MIT by Goldwasser and Bellare.
Foundations of Cryptography lecture notes from an intro course by Oded Goldreich
Links by Bruce Schneier
Shannon's Information Theory has the LaTeXed version of Shannon's seminal work.
Introduction to Crypto by Diffie and Hellman.
RSA labs Crypto FAQ contains many helpful questions and answers about cryptography in general.

Date	Topic	Presenter	Readings (read before meeting)	Slides
Oct. 13	Introduction	Boniface Hicks	Handbook of Applied Cryptography (HAC), pp. 1-25 (optional) Malkin's lecture notes, first 5 lectures (optional) Goldreich's Foundations of Cryptography (FoC), pp. 1-15	Intro
Oct. 20	RSA Intro and Attacks	Dave King	Twenty Years of Attacks on the RSA Cryptosystem by Dan Boneh	RSA Attacks PDF version
Oct. 27	Block ciphers	Wesam Lootah	The DES Algorithm Illustrated Handbook of Applied Cryptography (HAC), Chapter 7 Tutorial on Linear and Differential Cryptanalysis	Block ciphers PDF version
Nov. 3	Enigma	Bob Harris	Gaj, K and Orlowski, A, "Facts and Myths of Enigma: Breaking Stereotypes". Eurocrypt 2003: 106-122 Tuma J, "Permutation Groups and the Solution of German Enigma Cipher". 2003 "The Glow-Lamp Ciphering and Deciphering Machine" (Enigma Sales Brochure) Cryptologia Volume XXV, Number 3, July 2001, 161-173 "Enigma Machine" (at a Wiki-like site) "Solving the Enigma" (at NSA web site)	Enigma PDF version

Security Reading Group - Fall 2005

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