CS 459/698 - Privacy, Crypto, Network, Data Security - Winter 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 (Jan. 6th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lec. 1 slides | ||
| Lecture 2 - Cryptography Basics (Jan. 8th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Boneh and Shoup (Applied Crypto) | Lec. 2 slides | |
| Data Protected at Rest | ||
| Lecture 3 - Public Key Cryptography (Jan. 13th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Assignment 1 released | Boneh (20 years of attacks on RSA) | Lec. 3 slides |
| Lecture 4 - Integrity (Jan. 15th) | 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 (Jan. 20th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| El Gamal Encryption | Lec. 5 slides | |
| Data Protected in Transit | ||
| Lecture 6 - Network Security Primer (Jan. 22nd) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lec. 6 slides | ||
| Lecture 7 - Authentication 101 (Jan. 27th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lec. 7 slides | ||
| Lecture 8 - Authentication Protocols (Jan. 29th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Assignment 1 due | Lec. 8 slides | |
| Lecture 9 - Security Through the Layers (Feb. 3rd) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Assignment 2 released | Lec. 9 slides | |
| Lecture 10 - Secure Messaging (Feb. 5th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| OTR paper | Lec. 10 slides | |
| Lecture 11 - Network Anonymity (Feb. 10th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Tor design paper | Lec. 11 slides | |
| Lecture 12 - Encrypted Traffic Analysis (Feb. 12th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| A critical eval. of WF defences | Lec. 12 slides | |
| Reading Week (Feb. 17th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| No class | No class | No class |
| Reading Week (Feb. 19th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| No class | No class | No class |
| Lecture 13 - Network Steganography and Information Hiding (Feb. 24th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lec. 13 slides | ||
| Lecture 14 - Malicious Software (Feb. 26th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Botnet takeover | Lec. 14 slides | |
| Lecture 15 - Blockchain (Mar. 3rd) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System Ethereum Proof-of-Stake The centralized power of decentralized mining pools |
Lec. 15 slides | |
| Midterm 1 (Mar. 5th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Midterm 1 in class | ||
| Data Protected During Computation | ||
| Lecture 16 - Inference Attacks (Mar. 10th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Assignment 2 due | Lec. 16 slides | |
| Lecture 17 - Syntatic Notions of Privacy (Mar. 12th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Assignment 3 released | Lec. 17 slides | |
| Lecture 18 - Differential Privacy (Mar. 17th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lec. 18 slides | ||
| Lecture 19 - Multi-party Computation (Mar. 19th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lec. 19 slides | ||
| Lecture 20 - Privacy-preserving Machine Learning (Mar. 24th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lec. 20 slides | ||
| Lecture 21 - Adversarial Machine Learning (Mar. 26th) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lec. 21 slides | ||
| Lecture 22 - Homomorphic Encryption (Mar. 31st) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lec. 22 slides | ||
| Bonus content (Apr. 2nd) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Assignment 3 due |