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| Topic
| References
| Assignments
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| 3/30
| Introduction, one-time pad
Lecture slides
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Boneh & Shoup Ch. 2.1
Further reading:
Communication theory of secrecy systems Shannon 1949
| Homework 1 Available
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| 4/1
| PRGs and stream cipher encryption
Lecture slides
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Boneh & Shoup Ch. 2.2, Ch. 3.1-3.3
Further reading/Research directions:
All Your Biases Belong To Us: Breaking RC4 in WPA-TKIP and TLS by Vanhoef and Piessens
Attacks Only Get Better: Password Recovery Attacks Against RC4 in TLS by Garman, Paterson, and Van der Merwe
On the security of RC4 in TLS and WPA by AlFardan, Bernstein, Paterson, Poettering, and Schuldt 2013
The ChaCha family of stream ciphers by Bernstein
Security analysis of pseudo-random number generators with input: /dev/random is not robust by Dodis Pointcheval Ruhault Vergnaud Wichs 2013
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| 4/6
| Block ciphers
Lecture slides
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Boneh & Shoup Ch. 4.1-4.2
Further reading/Research directions:
Biclique Cryptanalysis of the Full AES by Bogdanov, Khovratovich, and Rechberger 2011
| Homework 2 Available
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| 4/8
| PRFs, chosen plaintext attacks, block cipher modes of operation
Lecture slides
| Boneh & Shoup Ch. 4.4, Ch. 5
Further reading/research:
Stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans by Becker, Regazzoni, Paar, Burleson 2013
| Homework 1 Due
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| 4/13
| Message authentication codes and message integrity; problems with CBC mode
Lecture slides
| Boneh & Shoup Ch. 6
Further reading:
Security Flaws Induced by CBC Padding
Applications to SSL, IPSEC, WTLS... by Vaudenay 2002
Here come the xor ninjas by Duong and Rizzo 2011
Compression and information leakage of plaintext by Kelsey 2002
The CRIME attack by Rizzo and Duong 2012
| Homework 3 Available
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| 4/15
| Hash functions
Lecture slides
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Boneh & Shoup Ch. 8
Further reading/research directions:
A cryptanalytic time-memory tradeoff by Hellman 1980
Parallel collision search with cryptanalytic applications by van Oorschot and Wiener 1999
The making of Keccak by Bertoni, Daemen, Peeters, Van Assche 2015
MD5 to be
considered harmful today by Sotirov, Stevens, Appelbaum,
Lenstra, Molnar, Osvik, de Weger 2009
Counter-cryptanalysis
by Stevens 2013
Speeding up detection of SHA-1 collision attacks using unavoidable attack conditions by Stevens and Shumow 2017
The first collision for full SHA-1 by Stevens, Bursztein, Karpman, Albertini, Markov 2017
| Homework 2 Due
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| 4/20
| Hash functions, MACs, and authenticated encryption
Lecture Slides
| Boneh & Shoup Ch. 8.7, 9
Further reading:
This POODLE Bites: Exploiting The SSL 3.0 Fallback by Möller, Duong, Kotowicz 2014
| Homework 4 Available
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| 4/22
| Computational number theory: Modular arithmetic, groups, rings, fields, efficient algorithms and hard problems
Lecture Slides
| Boneh & Shoup Appendix A.
Further reading:
A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra, Ch. 3, 6 by Shoup
Fast multiplication and its applications by Bernstein
| Homework 3 Due
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| 4/27
| Diffie-Hellman, elementary discrete log cryptanalysis
Lecture Slides
| New Directions in Cryptography by Diffie and Hellman 1976
Boneh & Shoup Ch. 10
HAC Ch. 3.6
On Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement with Short Exponents by van Oorschot and Wiener
| Homework 5 Available
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4/29
| Chinese Remainder Theorem, Pohlig-Hellman algorithm, public-key cryptography, RSA
Lecture Slides
| Boneh & Shoup Ch. 11
A method for obtaining digital signatures and public-key cryptography by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman 1978
Further reading:
A personal view of average-case complexity by Impagliazzo 1995
| Homework 4 Due
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| 5/4
| Elementary factoring algorithms and RSA cryptanalysis
Lecture Slides
| Boneh & Shoup Ch. 12
Further reading/Research directions:
Why Textbook ElGamal and RSA Encryption
Are Insecure by Boneh, Joux, and Nguyen 2000
Chosen Ciphertext Attacks Against Protocols Based on the RSA Encryption Standard PKCS #1 by Bleichenbacher 1998
DROWN: Breaking TLS using SSLv2 by Aviram et al. 2016
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| 5/6
| Digital signatures
Lecture Slides
| Boneh & Shoup Ch. 13
Mining Your Ps and Qs: Detection of Widespread Weak Keys in Network Devices by Heninger, Durumeric, Wustrow, and Halderman 2012
| Homework 6 Available
Homework 5 Due 5/8
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| 5/11
| Elliptic curve cryptography
Lecture Slides
| Boneh & Shoup Ch. 15
Further reading/Research directions:
A riddle wrapped in an enigma by Koblitz and Menezes 2015
Curve25519: new Diffie-Hellman speed records by Bernstein 2006
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| 5/13
| Authenticated Key Exchange; TLS
Lecture Slides
| Boneh & Shoup Ch. 21
Further reading/research directions:
A Messy State of the Union: Taming the Composite State Machines of TLS by Beurdouche, Barghavan, Delignat-Lavaud, Fournet, Kohlweiss, Pironti, Strub, and Zinzindohoue 2015
SMACK: State Machine AttaCKs against TLS
Triple Handshakes and Cookie Cutters:
Breaking and Fixing Authentication over TLS by Bhargavan et al. 2014
A Cross-Protocol Attack on the TLS Protocol by Mavrogiannopoulos, Vercauteren, Velichkov, Preneel 2012
| Homework 6 Due 5/15
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| 5/18
| Random number generation
Lecture Slides
| Further reading/research directions:
An Analysis of the NIST SP 800-90A Standard by Woodage and Shumow 2019
Security Analysis of Pseudo-Random Number Generators with Input: /dev/random is not Robust by Dodis et al. 2013
When Private Keys are Public: Results from the 2008 Debian OpenSSL Vulnerability by Yilek et al. 2009
Authentication Failures in NIST version of GCM by Joux
Nonce-Disrespecting Adversaries: Practical Forgery Attacks on GCM in TLS by Bock et al. 2016
On the Practical Exploitability of Dual EC in TLS Implementations by Checkoway et al. 2014
A Systematic Analysis of the Juniper Dual EC Incident by Checkoway et al. 2016
Cryptanalytic Attacks on Pseudorandom Number Generators by Kelsey Schneier Wagner and Hall 1998
Practical state recovery attacks against legacy RNG implementations by Cohney Green Heninger 2018
| Homework 7 Available
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| 5/20
| Index calculus for factoring and discrete log
Lecture Slides
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Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice by Adrian, Bhargavan, Durumeric, Gaudry, Green, Halderman, Heninger, Springall, Thome, Valenta, VanderSloot, Wustrow, Zanella-Beguelin, Zimmermann
Further reading:
A new index calculus algorithm with complexity L(1/4 + o(1)) in small characteristic by Joux 2013
A quasi-polynomial algorithm for discrete logarithm in finite fields of small characteristic by Barbulescu Gaudry Joux and Thome 2013
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| 5/25
| No class; Memorial day
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| 5/27
| Lattice-based cryptanalysis
Lecture Slides
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Daniele Micciancio lecture notes 1 2
Oded Regev lecture notes
Factoring Polynomials with Rational Coefficients by Lenstra Lenstra and Lovasz 1982
The two faces of lattices in cryptology by Nguyen 2001
Using LLL-reduction for solving RSA and factorization problems: a survey by May 2007
| Homework 7 Due
Homework 8 Available
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| 6/1
| More lattice-based cryptanalysis
Lecture Slides
| Further reading/research directions:
Hardness of computing the most significant bits of secret keys in Diffie-Hellman and related schemes by Boneh and Venkatesan 1996
Cryptanalysis of RSA with private key d less than N0.292 by Boneh and Durfee 2000
The Return of Coppersmith's Attack: Practical Factorization of Widely Used RSA Moduli by Nemec, Sys, Svenda, Klinec, and Matyas 2017
Biased Nonce Sense: Lattice Attacks against Weak ECDSA Signatures in Cryptocurrencies by Breitner and Heninger 2019
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| 6/3
| Side-channel attacks
Lecture Slides
| Further reading/research directions:
Timing Attacks on Implementations of
Diffe-Hellman, RSA, DSS, and Other Systems by Kocher 1996
On the importance of checking cryptographic protocols for faults by Boneh 1997
Differential Power Analysis by Kocher, Jaffe, and Jun 1998
Remote Timing Attacks are Practical by Brumely and Boneh 2003
Cache-timing attacks on AES by Bernstein 2005
RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis by Genkin, Shamir, and Tromer 2014
CacheBleed: A Timing Attack on OpenSSL Constant-Time RSA by Yarom, Genkin, and Heninger 2016
| Homework 8 Due 6/5
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