COSC 683 – Security and Internet Algorithms

CLASS LOG 

Grades  (you can identify yourself with the last 4 digits of the Towson ID)

The midterm exam will be March 9 at 7pm. It is a 90 minutes exam. You can prepare 2 pages, handwritten

(on both sides if you so desire), with whatever information you want, but other than this the exam  is 

closed notes/closed books.  Guidelines (I will post the solutions before the exam). Solutions

 

 Syllabus    

Plagiarism and how to avoid it 

Assignment template    tex file   pdf file

 

 Assignment 1   .tex (due Feb 10)

 Assignment 2   .tex (due Feb 17)

 Assignment 3   .tex (due Feb 24)

 Assignment 4  .tex (due March 2)

 Lecture Notes (do not print, they may be updated)

 Notes on Error-Correcting Codes 

 Notes on Finite Fields

Tutorial  on Error-Correcting Codes by Prof. Matej Boguszak

Notes on Data Compression

Notes on Compression (written by Prof Guy Blleloch)

Notes 1-1(crypto)  - Introduction,  Notes 1-2 (crypto) –Cryptanalysis of substitution cipher

Notes 2 (crypto)  - Security notions

Notes 3 (crypto)  - AE),  AES encryption - animationS

 

Notes 4 (crypto)  - Number Theory – short introduction for Cryptography

 

Notes 5 (crypto)  - RSA

 

Notes 6 (crypto)  - Public key cryptosystems

 

Notes 7 (crypto)  - Hash functions and MACs

 

Notes 8 (crypto)  - Digital Signatures

 

Notes 9 (crypto)  - Other Crypto protocols