Daily Syllabus, Math 202 Cryptography, Fall 2020

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Topic(s) for the Week Sunday
 
Monday
12:30 - 2:00
Wednesday
12:30 - 2:00
Thursday
 
Welcome to Crypto!
Chapter 1 Modular arithmetic and affine ciphers
8/23 1 minute Quiz, Flipgrid Introduction (optional) in onCourse, Echo360 videos 8/24 All students, Zoom

Bio questionnaire in onCourse due
8/26 Tutorial Group B
Tutorial Group C
8/27 JB due @ midnight
Chapter 2 One-time pads 8/30 PCA due @ midnight 8/31 All students, Zoom
Tutorial Group A
9/2 Tutorial Group B
Tutorial Group C


PS #1 due @ midnight
9/3 JB due @ midnight
Chapter 4 AES and finite fields 9/6 PCA due @ midnight 9/7 All students, Zoom
Tutorial Group A
9/9 Tutorial Group B
Tutorial Group C


PS #2 due @ midnight
9/10 JB due @ midnight
AES Data path and key path 9/13 PCA due @ midnight 9/14 All students, Zoom
Tutorial Group A
9/16 Tutorial Group B
Tutorial Group C


PS #3 due @ midnight
9/17 JB due @ midnight
Chapter 7 Public key cryptography and RSA 9/20 PCA due @ midnight 9/21 All students, Zoom
Tutorial Group A
9/23 Tutorial Group B
Tutorial Group C


PS #4 due @ midnight
9/24 JB due @ midnight
Chapter 7 RSA and the Euclidean algorithm 9/27 PCA due @ midnight 9/28 All students, Zoom
Tutorial Group A
Cheat Sheet for Exam 1 due @ midnight
Exam 1 available at 8:00 am Tuesday
9/30 Tutorial Group B
Tutorial Group C
10/1 Exam 1 due @ midnight
Chapter 7 Finishing up RSA
Chapter 10 RSA digital signatures
10/4 PCA due @ midnight
JB due @ midnight
10/5 All students, Zoom
Tutorial Group A
10/7 Tutorial Group B
Tutorial Group C
10/8 JB due @ midnight
Chapter 8 Diffie-Hellman key exchange
Chapter 11 Hash functions
10/11 PCA due @ midnight 10/12 All students, Zoom
Tutorial Group A
10/14 Tutorial Group B
Tutorial Group C


PS #5 due @ midnight
10/15 JB due @ midnight
Chapter 8 The discrete log problem 10/18 PCA due @ midnight 10/19 All students, Zoom
Tutorial Group A
10/21 Tutorial Group B
Tutorial Group C
10/22 JB due @ midnight

PS #6 due Fri 10/23 @ midnight
Chapter 8 Elgamal encryption and digital signatures 10/25 PCA due @ midnight 10/26 All students, Zoom
Tutorial Group A

Cheat Sheet for Exam 2 due @ midnight
Exam 2 available at 8:00 am Tuesday
10/28 Tutorial Group B
Tutorial Group C
10/29 Exam 2 due @ midnight
Chapter 10 DSA & MACs 11/1 PCA due @ midnight
JB due @ midnight
11/2 All students, Zoom
Tutorial Group A
11/4 Tutorial Group B
Tutorial Group C
11/5 JB due @ midnight
Chapter 13 M-I-T-M Attacks & TLS 11/8 11/9 All students, Zoom
We're all Tutorial Group A now
11/11 Open office hours 11/12 JB due @ midnight
Blockchain and Bitcoin 11/15 PCA due @ midnight 11/16 All students, Zoom
We're all Tutorial Group A now
11/18 Open office hours 11/19 JB due @ midnight

PS #7 due Fri 10/23 @ midnight
The Big Picture 11/22 11/23 All students, Zoom 11/25 Thanksgiving Break 11/26 Thanksgiving Break
11/29 11/30 Finals Period 12/2 Finals Period 12/3 Finals Period

Exam 3 due @ midnight