About this course: This course will introduce you to the foundations of modern cryptography, with an eye toward practical applications.
Created by: University of Maryland, College Park
Taught by: Jonathan Katz, Professor, University of Maryland, and Director, Maryland Cybersecurity Center
Maryland Cybersecurity Center
| Basic Info | Course 3 of 5 in the Cybersecurity Specialization |
| Commitment | 7 weeks of study, 4-7 hours/week |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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Syllabus
WEEK 1
Week 1
Introduction to Classical Cryptography
10 videos, 5 readings
- Video: Course Overview
- Reading: Syllabus
- Reading: Programming Assignments
- Reading: About Me
- Reading: Week 1
- Video: Introduction
- Video: Introduction Continued
- Video: Hex and ASCII
- Video: Breaking the Vigenere Cipher
- Reading: Programming Assignment 1
- Video: Principles of Modern Cryptography
- Video: Perfect Secrecy
- Video: Perfect Secrecy Part II
- Video: The One-Time Pad
- Video: Implementing the One-Time Pad
Graded: Week 1 Quiz
WEEK 2
Week 2
Computational Secrecy and Principles of Modern Cryptography
7 videos, 2 readings
- Reading: Week 2
- Video: Limitations of the One-Time Pad
- Video: Computational Secrecy
- Video: Computational Secrecy Part II
- Video: Pseudorandomness
- Video: Pseudorandom Generators
- Video: The Pseudo One-Time Pad
- Reading: Programming Assignment 2
- Video: Proofs of Security
Graded: Week 2 Quiz
WEEK 3
Week 3
Private-Key Encryption
6 videos, 2 readings
- Reading: Week 3
- Video: Stronger Security Notions
- Video: Pseudorandom Functions and Block Ciphers
- Video: CPA-Secure Encryption from PRFs/Block Ciphers
- Video: Modes of Encryption
- Video: Security Against Chosen-Ciphertext Attacks
- Video: Padding-Oracle Attacks
- Reading: Programming Assignment 3
Graded: Week 3 Quiz
WEEK 4
Week 4
Message Authentication Codes
7 videos, 2 readings
- Reading: Week 4
- Video: Message Integrity
- Video: A Fixed-Length MAC
- Video: CBC-MAC
- Reading: Programming Assignment 4
- Video: Hash Functions
- Video: HMAC
- Video: Authenticated Encryption
- Video: Secure Communication Sessions
Graded: Week 4 Quiz
WEEK 5
Week 5
Number Theory
5 videos, 1 reading
- Reading: Week 5
- Video: Number Theory One
- Video: Number Theory Two
- Video: Number Theory Three
- Video: Number Theory Four
- Video: Number Theory Five
Graded: Week 5 Quiz
WEEK 6
Week 6
Key Exchange and Public-Key Encryption
6 videos, 1 reading
- Reading: Week 6
- Video: The Public-Key Revolution
- Video: Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Video: The Public-Key Revolution Part II
- Video: Public-Key Encryption
- Video: Discrete-Log-Based Public-Key Encryption
- Video: RSA-Based Public-Key Encryption
Graded: Week 6 Quiz
WEEK 7
Week 7
Digital Signatures
7 videos, 2 readings
- Reading: Week 7
- Video: Digital Signatures
- Video: Digital Signatures Part II
- Video: RSA-Based Signatures
- Reading: Programming Assignment 5
- Video: Identification Schemes
- Video: Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
- Video: Putting It All Together: SSL/TLS
- Video: Parting Thoughts
Graded: Week 7 Quiz
Graded: Final Quiz
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Ratings and Reviews
Course was in good flow
Very interesting, but a bit too theorical : it would be cool to see more practical case, and the internal mechanisms of a standard encryption scheme like AES.
Excellent course
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