CS 470: Introduction to Applied Cryptography

• Instructor: Dr. Ali Aydin Selcuk
  Office: EA 507
  Telephone: 290-1352
  E-mail: selcuk@cs.bilkent.edu.tr
  Office hour: Wednesday 10:40-11:30 or by appointment
  

• Assistant: Murat Ak
  Office: EA 530
  Telephone: 290-1350
  E-mail: muratak@cs.bilkent.edu.tr
  Office hour: Tuesday 10:40-11:30 or by appointment
  

• Textbook: Cryptography and Network Security, 5th Edition, William Stallings.

• Syllabus: (pdf)
  Traditional cryptosystems
  Block ciphers
  Stream ciphers
  Hash functions
  Public key encryption
  Digital signatures
  Threshold cryptography
  Key management
  Authentication systems
  Kerberos
  IPsec
  SSL/TLS
  E-mail security
  Selected topics
  

• Homework Assignments:
  Homework #1
  Homework #2
  

• Projects:
  Project #1 pdf / starter code ^[1]
  

• Handouts:
  

  • Rijndael, Joan Daemen, Vincent Rijmen.
    
  • Intercepting Mobile Communications: The Insecurity of 802.11, Nikita Borisov, Ian Goldberg, David Wagner.
    
  • One-way compression function,
  • Merkle-Damgård construction,
  • MD5,SHA-1, Wikipedia.
    
  • Basic Number Theory Fact Sheet I, Fact Sheet II, Dan Boneh.
    
  • DNSsec, Wikipedia.
    
  • Chip and PIN is Broken, Steven J. Murdoch, Saar Drimer, Ross Anderson, Mike Bond.
  • Practical Relay Attack on Contactless Transactions by Using NFC Mobile Phones, Lishoy Francis, Gerhard Hancke, Keith Mayes, Konstantinos Markantonakis.
  • FAQ About Today's Cryptography, RSA Labs.
    
  • Problem Areas for the IP Security Protocols, Steve M. Bellovin
  • Cryptography in Theory and Practice: The Case of Encryption in IPsec, Kenneth G. Paterson, Arnold K.L. Yau
  • Understanding IKEv2: Tutorial, and Rationale for Decisions, Radia Perlman(Slides)
  • TLS, Wikipedia
  • Weak Authentication: How to Authenticate Unknown Principals without Trusted Parties, Jari Arkko, Pekka Nikander
  • Mobile IPv6 Security (video) (ZIP file)
  • Small Introduction to Malware, Engin Kirda

• Lecture Notes:
  

  • Introduction

  • Block Ciphers, I

  • Block Ciphers, II

  • Encrypting & Authenticating with Block Ciphers

  • Stream Ciphers

  • Cryptographic Hash Functions

  • Public Key Cryptography

  • RSA

  • ElGamal Cryptosystem

  • Key Distribution

  • Public Key Infrastructures

  • Authentication Systems

  • Cryptographic Authentication Protocols

  • Needham-Schroeder Protocol

  • Kerberos

  • Real-Time Communication Security

  • IPsec: AH & ESP

  • IPSec: ESP Attacks

  • IPSec: IKE

  • SSL/TLS & SET

  • E-Mail Security

  • The Big Picture

• Grading:^[2]
  Attendance: 3%
  Quiz: 17%
  Project: 10%
  Homework: 15%*
  Midterm: 25%
  Final: 30%