CS 489/698 - Privacy, Crypto, Network, Data Security - Spring 2024

Schedule & Reading List

- Lecture slides will be released after each corresponding lecture.
Introduction
Lecture 1 - Logistics and Introduction to the course (May 6th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lec. 1 slides
Lecture 2 - Cryptography Basics (May 8th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Boneh and Shoup (Applied Crypto) Lec. 2 slides
Data Protected at Rest
Lecture 3 - Public Key Cryptography (May 13th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Assignment 1 released Boneh (20 years of attacks on RSA) Lec. 3 slides
Lecture 4 - Integrity (May 15th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Marlinspike (Cryptographic Doom) Lec. 4 slides
Lecture 5 - Discrete Logarithm and Diffie-Hellman (May 21st) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Data Protected in Transit
Lecture 6 - Network Security Primer (May 22nd) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 7 - Authentication 101 (May 27th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 8 - Authentication Protocols (May 29th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Assignment 1 due
Lecture 9 - Confidentiality (Jun. 3rd) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Assignment 2 released
Lecture 10 - Security Through the Layers (Jun. 5th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 11 - Secure Messaging (Jun. 10th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 12 - Network Anonymity (Jun. 12th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 13 - Encrypted Traffic Analysis (Jun. 17th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 14 - Network Steganography and Information Hiding (Jun. 19th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 15 - Blockchain (Jun. 24th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Midterm 1 (Jun. 26th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Midterm 1 in class
Data Protected During Computation
Lecture 16 - Inference Attacks (Jul. 3rd) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Assignment 2 due
Lecture 17 - Syntatic Notions of Privacy (Jul. 8th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Assignment 3 released
Lecture 18 - Differential Privacy (Jul. 10th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 19 - Privacy-preserving Machine Learning (Jul. 15th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 20 - Adversarial Machine Learning (Jul. 17th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 21 - Homomorphic Encryption (Jul. 22nd) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 22 - Multi-party Computation (Jul. 24th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Assignment 3 due
Midterm 2 (Jul. 29th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Midterm 2 in class