| Week of | Material Covered | Remarks |
| September 6 | Introduction and Preliminaries |
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| September 11 | Algebraic Structures Finite Fields Vector Spaces |
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| September 18 | Information and Codes |
Assignment 1 Given |
| September 25 | Linear Codes |
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| October 2 | Hamming Codes Error Detection Introduction to Cryptography DES |
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| October 9 | October 9 Thanksgiving Day9-13 (Mon-Fri) Mid-semester break. No classes. |
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| October 16 | Chapter 8 AES |
Assignment 1 due Assignment 2 given |
| October 23 | Midterm 1 Contemporary Symmetric Ciphers(RC5, RC4, 3DES, Blowfish) |
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| October 30 | Confidentiality using Symmetric ciphers |
Assignment 2 due Assignment 3 given |
| November 6 | Public Key Cryptography and RSA Wednesday November 11, Remembrance Day. No classes |
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| November 13 | Message Authentication and Hash Functions |
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| November 20 | Hash Algorithms (MD5, SHA, RIPEMD,HMAC) Digital Signatures Midterm 2 |
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| November 27 | Web Security. Electronic Mail Security. System Security. Presentations |
Assignment 3 due Project due. |
| December 4 | Presentations |