Class meetings

MW 12:00-13:20
B90 C-D, Science Library

Instructor

Eugene Luks
143 Deschutes Hall
Phone: x6-1379
E-mail: luks at cs.uoregon.edu
Office hours: Thurs, 10am, but other times by appointment. Optional "tutorials" may also be arranged.

GTF

Nicholas Boydston
228 Deschutes Hall
E-mail: boydstnp at cs.uoregon.edu
Office hours: Tues, noon, and by appointment.

Textbooks

Required

Wade Trappe and Lawrence C. Washington,
Introduction to Cryptography with Coding Theory, 2nd Edition
    See text web site for errata and useful Mathematica Code.

Recommended

Simon Singh,
The Code Book: the science of secrecy from ancient Egypt to quantum cryptography
    See text web site for an accompanying CD-ROM (playable only on PCs) and other fun stuff.

Other interesting materials will be on reserve in the Science Library and there is lots more on the Internet, some of which will be in assigned readings.

Grading and dates

 

Homework exercises	40%
TakeHome midterm     distributed   Apr 29     due   May 4	25%
Final paper or project     preliminary proposal   May 11     short presentations   10th week & finals week     writeup due Thursday, Jun 11 (finals week)	25%
Class participation	10%

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