ENEE/CMSC/MATH456 Cryptography

    Spring 2025

Syllabus (includes grading policy) | Lecture Summaries | Homeworks | Readings | Textbook | Office Hours

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Announcements

• The final review sheet can be found here.
• Homework 6 is due on Monday, 5/5/25 at 11:59pm.

Course Description

This course covers the theory, application, and implementation of mathematical techniques used to secure modern communications. Topics include symmetric and public-key encryption, message integrity, hash functions, block-cipher design and analysis, number theory, and digital signatures.

General Information

• This course meets on Mon/Wed 2pm-3:15pm in ATL 1113.
• The prerequisites for this course are: Programming experience equivalent to CMSC 106, 131, or ENEE 150; plus two courses chosen from CMSC351, CMSC330, ENEE324, ENEE380, and 400-level MATH courses.
• Tentative midterm exams date/time: In class on March 12.
• Final exam date/time/place: (tentative) Monday, May 19, 4-6pm in our regular classroom.
• The TAs for this course are Ben Sela (email: benjsela (at) umd (dot) edu) and Zheyu Shen (email: zyshen (at) umd (dot) edu)

Textbook

"Introduction to Modern Cryptography, 3rd Edition" by Katz and Lindell, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2020.

Office Hours

• Instructor office hours: Tues 9:30-10:30am in IRB 5238, or by appointment
• TA office hours: Tues 11am-1pm in IRB 5161 (Ben)
  Fri 9-11am in IRB 5119 (Zheyu)

All students are presumed to be aware of the UMD policy on academic integrity.