CS 15-827: Security & Cryptography
Fall 1999
UNDER CONSTRUCTION!
Faculty
Jeannette Wing
Office: WeH 8219
Phone: x8-3068
Email: wing@cs.cmu.edu
Course Secretary
Terese Fiedler
Office: WeH 8120
Phone: x8-2568
Email: terese@cs.cmu.edu
Classes
The class meets 1:00-2:50 p.m. on Mondays in WeH 5409 (except for two Fridays when we meet in WeH 4615a).
References
The required textbook for the course is Handbook of Applied Cryptography, Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot, and Scott A. Vanstone, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1997.
Other textbooks which you may find useful for background or supplementary information are:
- Applied Cryptography, 2nd Edition, Bruce Schneier, John Wiley, New York, 1996.
- Cryptography: Theory and Practice, Douglas R. Stinson, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1995.
- Cryptography and Data Security, Dorothy Denning, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1982.
- Network Security, Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman, and Mike Speciner, Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1995.
Grading
Students taking this class for credit are responsible for attending and participating in class (10%), doing all four ungraded homeworks (10%),
doing a term project (40%) that has written, oral, and (possible) demonstration components, and taking the final exam (40%).
Students auditing this class are responsible for attending and participating in class and doing the ungraded homeworks. They do not have to do the project or take the final.
Attendance is mandatory for all, especially since we meet only once a week. You must make up any missed classes by doing some additional work; please see me if such a situation arises.
Announcements and Communications
There is a class bulletin board, cmu.cs.class.cs827, where the
instructor will post announcements. You should check this
bboard regularly for clarifications and corrections to assignments, as
well as for other course-related announcements. You may also post
notices pertinent to the course. Although these will not be
``official'' messages, you may find the discussions useful. We
encourage you to use this bboard as a class resource.
We have a class mailing list, cs-827@cs.
Only urgent announcements should be sent to the mailing list. This way
we avoid filling up everyone's mailboxes with information that can be
handled through the bboard.