| Week of | Material Covered | Remarks |
| September 6 | Introduction and Preliminaries |
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| September 13 | Information and Codes |
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| September 20 | Linear Codes |
Assignment 1 Given |
| September 27 | Hamming Codes Error Detection |
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| October 4 | Introduction to Cryptography |
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| October 11 | DES Chapter 8 |
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| October 18 | Finite Fields AES |
Assignment 1 due Assignment 2 given |
| October 25 | Contemporary Symmetric Ciphers(RC5, RC4, 3DES, Blowfish) Confidentiality using Symmetric ciphers |
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| November 1 | Public Key Cryptography and RSA |
Assignment 2 due Assignment 3 given |
| November 8 | Message Authentication and Hash Functions 10 Thursday Remembrance Day. No classes |
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| November 15 | Midterm Hash Algorithms (MD5, SHA, RIPEMD,HMAC) Digital Signatures |
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| November 22 | Presentations |
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| November 29 | Web Security. Electronic Mail Security. System Security. |
Assignment 3 due Project due. |