CS 459/698 - Privacy, Crypto, Network, Data Security - Spring 2025
Schedule & Reading List
- Lecture slides and optional readings will be released shortly before each corresponding lecture.| Introduction | ||
|---|---|---|
| Lecture 1 - Logistics and Introduction to the course (May 5th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lec. 1 slides | ||
| Lecture 2 - Cryptography Basics (May 7th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Boneh and Shoup (Applied Crypto) | Lec. 2 slides | |
| Data Protected at Rest | ||
| Lecture 3 - Public Key Cryptography (May 12th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Assignment 1 released | Boneh (20 years of attacks on RSA) | Lec. 3 slides |
| Lecture 4 - Integrity (May 14th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Marlinspike (Cryptographic Doom) Why it's harder to forge a SHA-1 certificate than it is to find a SHA-1 collision SHA-1 collision found |
Lec. 4 slides | |
| Lecture 5 - Discrete Logarithm and Diffie-Hellman (May 21st) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| El Gamal Encryption | Lec. 5 slides | |
| Data Protected in Transit | ||
| Lecture 6 - Network Security Primer (May 26th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lec. 6 slides | ||
| Lecture 7 - Authentication 101 (May 28th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lec. 7 slides | ||
| Lecture 8 - Authentication Protocols (Jun. 2nd) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Assignment 1 due | Lec. 8 slides | |
| Lecture 9 - Security Through the Layers (Jun. 4th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Assignment 2 released | Lec. 9 slides | |
| Lecture 10 - Secure Messaging (Jun. 9th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| OTR paper | Lec. 10 slides | |
| Lecture 11 - Network Anonymity (Jun. 11th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Tor design paper | Lec. 11 slides | |
| Lecture 12 - Encrypted Traffic Analysis (Jun. 16th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| ENISA - Encrypted Traffic Analysis | Lec. 12 slides | |
| Lecture 13 - Network Steganography and Information Hiding (Jun. 18th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lec. 13 slides | ||
| Lecture 14 - Blockchain (Jun. 23rd) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System Ethereum Proof-of-Stake The centralized power of decentralized mining pools |
Lec. 14 slides | |
| Lecture 15 - Malicious Software (Jun. 25th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Botnet takeover | Lec. 15 slides | |
| Midterm 1 (Jul. 2nd) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Midterm 1 in class | ||
| Data Protected During Computation | ||
| Lecture 16 - Inference Attacks (Jul. 7th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Assignment 2 due | Dataset reconstruction attacks | Lec. 16 slides |
| Lecture 17 - Syntatic Notions of Privacy (Jul. 9th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Assignment 3 released | Broken Promises of Privacy FOILing NYC's Taxi Trip Data A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749 k-Anonymity: A Model for Protecting Privacy l-Diversity: Privacy Beyond k-Anonymity t-Closeness: Privacy Beyond k-Anonymity and l-Diversity |
Lec. 17 slides |
| Lecture 18 - Differential Privacy (Jul. 14th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Damien Desfontaines' friendly introduction to differential privacy A list of real-world uses of differential privacy Gautam Kamath's Algorithms for Private Data Analysis course at UW |
Lec. 18 slides | |
| Lecture 19 - Privacy-preserving Machine Learning (Jul. 16th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lec. 19 slides | ||
| Lecture 20 - Adversarial Machine Learning (Jul. 21st) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lec. 20 slides | ||
| Lecture 21 - Multi-party Computation (Jul. 23rd) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Daniel Kales' Intro to Secret Sharing | Lec. 21 slides | |
| Lecture 22 - Homomorphic Encryption (Jul. 28th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Assignment 3 due | Lec. 22 slides | |
| Bonus: Internet Censorship & Surveillance (Jul. 30th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lec. 23 slides |