| Week of | Material Covered | Remarks |
| September 9 | Introduction and Preliminaries |
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| September 14 | Algebraic Structures Finite Fields Vector Spaces |
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| September 21 | Information and Codes |
Assignment 1 Given |
| September 28 | Linear Codes |
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| October 5 | Hamming Codes Error Detection Introduction to Cryptography DES |
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| October 12 | October 12 Thanksgiving Day12-16 (Mon-Fri) Mid-semester break. No classes. |
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| October 19 | Chapter 8 AES |
Assignment 1 due Assignment 2 given |
| October 26 | Contemporary Symmetric Ciphers(RC5, RC4, 3DES, Blowfish) |
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| November 2 | Midterm Confidentiality using Symmetric ciphers |
Assignment 2 due Assignment 3 given |
| November 9 | Public Key Cryptography and RSA Wednesday November 11, Remembrance Day. No classes |
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| November 16 | Message Authentication and Hash Functions |
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| November 23 | Hash Algorithms (MD5, SHA, RIPEMD,HMAC) Digital Signatures |
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| November 30 | Web Security. Electronic Mail Security. System Security. |
Assignment 3 due Project due. |