RIT Department of Computer Science

Week	Topics	Homework	Special Events and Due Dates
1	History of cryptography	Homework 1
2	Classical cryptography		Homework 1 due
3	Modular arithmetic, number theoretical algorithms	Homework 2
4	Block ciphers, DES		Homework 2 due
5	Block ciphers, AES, Galois fields	Homework 3
6	Linear and differential cryptanalysis		Homework 3 due
7	Hashing	Homework 4	Homework 4 due
8	Review		Midterm exam
9	Primality, CRT	Homework 5
10	Primality, Factoring		Homework 5 due
11	Diffie-Hellman, RSA	Homework 6
12	RSA		Homework 6 due
13	Digital signatures	Homework 7
14	Selected topics in cryptography		Homework 7 due
15	Selected topics in cryptography, Review	Homework 8	Homework 8 due
16			Final exam