IEMS5710B Cryptography, Info. Security and Privacy
(2^nd Trimester, 2024-25)

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• Instructor: Sherman S. M. Chow (firstname [at] cuhk.edu.hk)
• Teaching Assistant: Yingyu Pan ([check-blackboard] [at] link.cuhk.edu.hk)
• Time: 2:30pm - 5:15pm Thursday
• Venue: Fung King Hey Building (KHB) Swire Hall (SWH) 1 (G/F)
• Class Composition: MSc(ISTM)

Tentative Workload:

1. Class Participation [5%] (please download uReply)
2. "Lab" Assignment [5%]
   (Due: 28 Dec 2024 11:59pm HK Time)
   
3. Two Individual Written Assignments [30%]
4. Mid-Term Exam [25%]
5. Final Exam [35%]

Class Schedule:

1. 5/12: 0. Logistics, 1. Overview (slightly updated)
2. 12/12: 1. Overview (fin.), 2. One-time Pad (up to p.36)
3. 19/12: 2. OTP (fin.), 3. Computational Security
   4. Pseudorandom Generator
   26/12: [X'mas Holiday]
   
4. 2/1: 4. Pseudorandom Generator (fin.) 5. Pseudorandom Function
5. 9/1: 5. Pseudorandom Function (fin.)
   6. Privacy-Enhancing Applications of Pseudorandom Function
   7. Mode of Operation
6. 16/1: 7. Chosen-Ciphertext Attacks
   8. Message Authentication Code
   9. Hash Function
   [Written Assignment 1 released]
7. 23/1: 9. Hash Function (fin.)
   10. Public-Key Cryptography (up to slide 19, the end of mid-term scope)
   30/1: [Lunar New Year Holiday]
8. 6/2: 10. Public-Key Cryptography (fin.)
   11. KDC
9. 13/2: 11. KDC vs. PKI, and Access Control (fin.)
   15/2: Mid-term exam [Time and Location: TBA]
10. 20/2: Domain Name Server, Database
11. 27/2: Web Security
12. 15/3: [Final-Exam (tentative, subject to grade submission deadline)]