CS 15-827: Security & Cryptography
Fall 1997
Faculty
Jeannette Wing
Office: WeH 8219
Phone: x8-3068
Email: wing+@cs.cmu.edu
Doug Tygar
Office: WeH 7126
Phone: x8-6340
Email: tygar+@cs.cmu.edu
Teaching Assistant
Ari Rapkin
Office: Doherty 4301h
Phone: x8-7898
Email: ari+@cs.cmu.edu
Course Secretary
Heather Marko
Office: WeH 8120
Phone: x8-2568
Email: heatherm@cs.cmu.edu
Classes
Generally, class meets on Wednesdays from 1:30 to 3:50 PM.
However, there are a few exceptions. Please check the syllabus for details.
Place: WeH 4615A
References
The textbook for the course is Applied Cryptography, 2nd
Edition, Bruce Schneier, John Wiley, 1996, ISBN 0-471-11709-9.
Try to get the fifth printing or later.
Copies are available through Amazon.com at a 20% discount.
Click
here to place your order. If you team up with other students, you can reduce the shipping costs.
Other recommended textbooks (with links to Amazon.com where available):
- 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.
- Cryptography: Theory and Practice, Douglas R. Stinson, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1995.
Grading
Students taking this class for credit are responsible for attending
and participating in class, doing all bi-weekly homeworks, being a scribe for at least one lecture, and doing a
project that has both written and oral
components. Attendance is mandatory, especially since we meet only
once a week.
Students auditing this class are responsible for attending and
participating in class, are expected to be a scribe, are encouraged
(but not required) to do a project, and do not have to do the homeworks.
Announcements and Communications
There is a class bulletin board, cmu.cs.class.cs827, where the
instructors and TA 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.