| Week | Tuesday | Thursday |
| Jan 16 | Introduction. | Information theory.
Slides. Homework 1 |
| Jan 23 | Information theory (continued) | Information theory (continued) |
| Jan 30 | Information theory and basic cryptography. | Perfect secrecy and one-time pad. Slides. Homework 2 |
| Feb 6 | No class. | Classical Cipher I. |
| Feb 13 | Classical Cipher II. | Mathematical background. Homework 3 |
| Feb 20 | Introduction to modern encryption systems. | Guest lecture by Ray Vaughn. Slides |
| Feb 27 | Substitution Permutation Network (SPN). | Simon out of town to RMCCDC. No lecture. |
| March 5 | Data Encryption Standard (DES).
Slides. Programming project 1 Sample inputs and outputs |
Mathematical Background. |
| March 12 | Mathematical Background. | AES. Slides |
| March 19 | Spring break | Spring break |
| March 26 | Midterm exam | Modern symmetric ciphers. Slides |
| April 2 | Introduction to public-key crypto | Mathematical background |
| April 9 | RSA crypto system | RSA algorithms |
| April 16 | Primality test |
Rabin crypto system Programming project 2: RSA |
| April 23 | RSA assignment Q&A | Cryptographic hash functions. Slides |
| May 1 | Message Authentication Code. Slides | Digital Signature |