CS 459/659 - Privacy, Cryptography, Network and Data Security - Winter 2027
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 11) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lecture 2 - Cryptography Basics (Jan 13) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Data Protected at Rest | ||
| Lecture 3 - Public Key Cryptography (Jan 18) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Assignment 1 released | ||
| Lecture 4 - Integrity (Jan 20) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lecture 5 - Discrete Logarithm, Diffie-Hellman, ElGamal (Jan 25) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Data Protected in Transit | ||
| Lecture 6 - Network Security Primer (Jan 27) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lecture 7 - Authentication (Feb 1) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lecture 8 - Authentication Protocols (Feb 3) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lecture 9 - Security Through the Layers (Feb 8) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Assignment 1 due | ||
| Assignment 2 released | ||
| Lecture 10 - Secure Messaging (Feb 10) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lecture 11 - Network Anonymity (Feb 22) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| CS 659 Proposal due | ||
| Lecture 12 - Encrypted Traffic Analysis (Feb 24) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Midterm (Mar 1) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Midterm in class | ||
| Lecture 13 - Network Steganography and Information Hiding (Mar 3) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lecture 14 - Blockchain (Mar 8) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Data Protected During Computation | ||
| Lecture 15 - Inference Attacks (Mar 10) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lecture 16 - Syntatic Notions of Privacy (Mar 15) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Assignment 2 due | ||
| Lecture 17 - Differential Privacy (Mar 17) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Assignment 3 released | ||
| Lecture 18 - Privacy-preserving Machine Learning (Mar 22) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lecture 19 - Adversarial Machine Learning (Mar 24) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lecture 20 - Poisoning Attacks (Mar 29) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lecture 21 - Multi-party Computation (Mar 31) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lecture 22 - Homomorphic Encryption (Apr 5) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Lecture 23 - Bonus Content (Apr 7) | Optional Readings | Lecture Slides |
| Assignment 3 and CS 659 Research Paper due |