EE 720: An Introduction to Number Theory and Cryptography (Spring 2018)

• Instructor: Saravanan Vijayakumaran
• Schedule: Slot 6, Wednesday and Friday (11:05am - 12:30pm)
• Location: LA 302
• Office Hours: 5pm - 6pm, Fridays

Course Content

• Perfectly Secret Encryption
• Private-Key Encryption
• Message Authentication Codes
• Practical Stream and Block Ciphers
• Number Theory, Groups, Finite Fields
• Public-Key Encryption
• Hash Functions
• Digital Signatures

Reference Books

• Introduction to Modern Cryptography, Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell, CRC Press, 2015 (2nd Edition)
• A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography, Neal Koblitz, 1994 (2nd Edition)

Grading Policy

• 10% Assignments, 20% Quizzes, 25% Midsem, 45% Endsem
• Relative grading
• For AU, final score should be at CC level or above
• 80% attendance required

Lecture Outlines

• Lecture 01
• Lecture 02
• Lecture 03
• Lecture 04
• Lecture 05
• Lecture 06
• Lecture 07
• Lecture 08
• Lecture 09
• Lecture 10
• Lecture 11
• Lecture 12
• Lecture 13
• Lecture 14
• Lecture 15
• Lecture 16
• Lecture 17
• Lecture 18
• Lecture 19
• Lecture 20
• Lecture 21
• Lecture 22
• Lecture 23
• Lecture 24

Assignments

• Assignment 1
• Assignment 2
• Assignment 3

Exams

• Quiz 1
• Midsem
• Quiz 2
• Quiz 3
• Endsem

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