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Weekly Schedule

Course Directory (Lecture Notes and Programs Developed in Class)
Venue: VH1152A except on certain Mondays when it moves to <hi>CSEB1006</hi> as highlighted below

————————————————— FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS —————————————————
Sep 07	Cryptography in the Computer Security Context
Sep 12, 14	Introduction to Cryptography and the Affine Cipher (Ch 1, Sec 2.1-2.2, TLA#1)
Sep 19, 21	Vigenère, Hill, OTP, and RNG (Rest of Ch 2 excluding 2.5-2.6 and 2.11-2.12)
SYMMETRIC CRYPTOSYSTEMS
Sep 26, 28	Properties of Modern Symmetric Ciphers (Ch 4)
Oct 03, 05	<hi>Cryptography Lab #1 on Monday in CSEB 1006</hi>, DES (Ch 4, TLA#2)

Oct 17, 19	<hi>Cryptography Lab #2 on Monday in CSEB 1006</hi>, JCE on Wed
ASYMMETRIC CRYPTOSYSTEMS
Oct 24, 26	<hi>Programming Test on Monday in CSEB 1006</hi>, Written Test in class on Wednesday
Oct 31, 2	RSA (Sec 3.1.1-3.3.1, 3.5-3.6, 6.1. TLA#3)
Nov 07, 09	RSA (Sec 3.4, 6.1, 6.3 (to page 180), 6.5-6.7)
Nov 14, 16
CRYPTOGRAPHIC APPLICATIONS
Nov 21, 23	<hi>Cryptography Lab #3 on Monday in CSEB 1006</hi>
Nov 28, 30	<hi>Cryptography Lab #4 on Monday in CSEB 1006</hi>
Dec 05

Dec 13	Written Test#1 at 2:00 pm in CSE B, <hi>Programming Test#2 at 4:00 pm in CSEB 1006</hi>

Important Dates

The Drop Deadline is Fri Nov 11
Written & Programming Tests #2 will be held during the exam period (Dec 8 - 22).