| Date | Topic | Reading/lecture notes | Quiz/Homework | |
| 8/31 | Lecture 1: Introduction to cryptography | Pages 1-12 of [JL] | Quiz 1 | |
| 9/2 | Lecture 2: One-time pad and perfectly secure encryption | $1.4, $2.1, $2.2, $2.3 of [JL] | Quiz 2 | |
| 9/7 | Lecture 3: Computational security | $3.1, $3.2.1 of [JL], $3.1 of [PS] | Quiz 3 | |
| 9/9 | Lecture 4: Pseudorandom generator and computationally secure encryption | $3.3 of [JL] | Quiz 4
Homework 1 out | |
| 9/14 | Lecture 5: Multiple encryption security | $3.4 of [JL] | Quiz 5 | |
| 9/16 | Lecture 6: Pseudorandom functions, CPA secure encryption | $3.5, $3.6 of [JL] | Quiz 6
Homework 1 due on Friday 9/17 | |
| 9/21 | Lecture 7: Message authentication code | $4.1, $4.2, $4.3.1 of [JL] | Quiz 7 | |
| 9/23 | Lecture 8: Message authentication code and collision-resistant hashing | $4.3.2, $5.1, $5.2 of [JL] | Quiz 8
Homework 2 out | |
| 9/28 | Lecture 9: Collision-resistant hash function, hash-and-MAC | $5.1, $5.2, $5.3.1 | Quiz 9 | |
| 9/30 | Lecture 10 Merkle hash trees and secure storage outsourcing | Storage Outsourcing (On Canvas) | Quiz 10
Homework 2 due | |
| 10/5 | Lecture 11: Number theory | $8.1.1- $8.1.4, $8.2.1, $8.3.1 of [JL] | Quiz 11 | |
| 10/7 | Midterm 1 | | | |
| 10/12 | Lecture 12: Key exchange | $10.1 - $10.3 of [JL] | Quiz 12 | |
| 10/14 | Mid-semester Break, No Class | | Homework 3 out | |
| 10/19 | Lecture 13: Public-key encryption, digital signatures | $11.1, $11.2.1 $11.4.1, $12.1, $12.2, $12.4 of [JL] | Quiz 13 | |
| 10/21 | Lecture 14: Secure two-party computation | $6.2 of [PS] | Quiz 14
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| 10/26 | Lecture 15: Secure two-party computation (continued) | $6.2 of [PS] | Quiz 15 Homework 3 due | |
| 10/28 | Lecture 16: Oblivious RAM | Lecture notes posted on Canvas | Quiz 16
Homework 4 out | |
| 11/2 | Lecture 17: Zero-knowledge proofs | $12.1, $12.2, $12.6 of [G] | Quiz 17 | |
| 11/4 | Lecture 18: Zero-knowledge proofs (continued), Byzantine Broadcast | $3 of [S] | Quiz 18
Homework 4 due | |
| 11/9 | Midterm 2 | | | |
| 11/11 | Lecture 19: Dolev-Strong, Blockchain protocols | $3 of [S] | Quiz 19
Homework 5 out | |
| 11/16 | Lecture 20: Blockchain protocols, Streamlet | $7 of [S] | Quiz 20 | |
| 11/18 | Lecture 21: Bitcoin | $14.1 of [S] | Quiz 21
Homework 5 due (on Tuesday 11/22) | |
| 11/23 | Lecture 22 Namakoto consensus and selfish mining attack | $14.1, $15 of [S] | Quiz 22 | |
| 11/25 | Thanksgiving break, No Class | | | |
| 11/30 | Lecture 23 Differential privacy | $1, $2, $3.1, $3.3 of [DR] | Quiz 23 | |
| 12/2 | Midterm 3 | | | |