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
Lecture 2 - Cryptography Basics (May 7th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Data Protected at Rest
Lecture 3 - Public Key Cryptography (May 12th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Assignment 1 released
Lecture 4 - Integrity (May 14th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 5 - Discrete Logarithm and Diffie-Hellman (May 21st) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Data Protected in Transit
Lecture 6 - Network Security Primer (May 26th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 7 - Authentication 101 (May 28th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 8 - Authentication Protocols (Jun. 2nd) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Assignment 1 due
Lecture 9 - Security Through the Layers (Jun. 4th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Assignment 2 released
Lecture 10 - Secure Messaging (Jun. 9th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 11 - Network Anonymity (Jun. 11th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 12 - Encrypted Traffic Analysis (Jun. 16th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 13 - Network Steganography and Information Hiding (Jun. 18th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 14 - Malicious Software (Jun. 23rd) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 15 - Blockchain (Jun. 25th) Optional Readings Lecture 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
Lecture 17 - Syntatic Notions of Privacy (Jul. 9th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Assignment 3 released
Lecture 18 - Differential Privacy (Jul. 14th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 19 - Privacy-preserving Machine Learning (Jul. 16th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 20 - Adversarial Machine Learning (Jul. 21st) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 21 - Multi-party Computation (Jul. 23rd) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 22 - Secret Sharing and Homomorphic Encryption (Jul. 28th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Bonus: Internet Censorship & Surveillance (Jul. 30th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Assignment 3 due